Is there a digital RF other than Leica?

Nah, ddx is Ilford's high speed. HP5 is grainier by nature than the modern-stock Tri-X, and this was important work I needed to be able to use big. I enlarged a shot to 16x20 and thats about where that particular combination gets me (DDX pushing HP5 to 3200)

Here's a rough scan:
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That was about three or four years ago. Nowadays I'm shooting a lot more tri-x and the grain is so absent from the modern stock that I can use D76 for 1600 pushes all day long and it looks good!

I also push rarely enough that I didn't want to have to keep a special developer that might go bad on the shelf

Got it, thanks, and how do you feel about tmy pushed in d76?
 
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