>>3944686Get a general purpose developer.
Don't go chasing silver bullet developers, reading random comments in forums etc. .
Here's some general purpose developers: Ilford ID-11, Kodak D-76, Kodak HC-110, Kodak XTol.
General purpose developers - i.e. *not* Rodinal (accutance developer) or Perceptol (fine grain/solvent developer) or Pyrocat (staining developer) - and normal development and agitation (i.e. *not* stand or high dilutions or reduced agitation) will give you great results with virtually every single film.
And they'll give good results when you push or pull your films.
Leave the specialty developers and specialty dev techniques for later. Not because they're any harder, but because they don't give good results with most combinations of films, for most situations. It'd be silly to corner yourself in just the (relatively) fringe cases where those techniques actually give better results than "normal ones", and get worse results in all other cases.