>>3474494>I aim for a high contrast grainy look which it seems to do a pretty good job of.That's ok if you're going for that look. But usually the goal is normal-low contrast negs, because they're easiest to work with in the darkroom. You have the most detail for dodging and burning, and you can always increase contrast with contrast filters when printing. Same goes for scanning, those scanning makes easier to work with difficult negatives.
And same for grain. Unsharp mask in the darkroom (or condenser enlarger), or sharpening digitally.
Anyway, for me the easiest developer to work with, with *any* film (slow and fast, cubic and t-grain, pushing and pulling), is XTol.
Very good grain and contrast, especially when pushing. (for me, good contrast when pushing = normal contrast).
>picrelated is TriX at 800 in XTol 1+1 