[Frameworks] Developers

[Scott Dorsey]

Mr. Woods has it right.  What you want is a developer that will quickly
develop to a very high gamma, without a lot of grain.  You can in fact use
D-76 but your developing time will be very long in order to get the gamma
up and it will take some tinkering.  You can use dektol, but the grain will
be enormous.

Kodak used to have a brochure called "Small Batch Reversal Processing of 
Kodak Films" which had formulae for hand processing, and which was very
good and useful.  I think the developer they listed was not standard D-19
but was a similar high energy developer with a silver solvent for softer
grain edges.
--scott