Response to Do I HAVE to underexpose if I want to overdevelop and keep the subject's face detail?

For whatever it's worth, at one time, I shot a lot of 72 exp HP5 which is not longer available. I even had a special Ilford tank for it. I used to use, I think it was, XP-15, which I got from Freestyle, although it's no longer listed. I deluted the crap out of it until I figured I should develop the film for 30 to 45 minutes. Whether you'll like this technique or not, I don't know, but try it. I leaned about it from someone who was supposed to work for Life labs during WWII. Apparently they got a lot of horrendous film which they developed by extented development just to try and get something on the negative. I've gotten some really interesting effects. Now I just do T-Max400 in Xtol 1:1.

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