I've used D76 for most of my photos but last year I tried Xtol, and I felt it was less contrasty than the D76. I preferred the D76 because of that. Recently I have been shooting with Ilford XP2 and of course you need to develop it using C-41, although the Digital Truth tables show that you can use a regular black and white developer as well, which I haven't tried. C-41 is a bit nastier chemical and you need to be careful handling it as well as disposal. But the XP2 negatives are beautiful. I may try a roll and develop it with either D76 or ID-11 sometime.
I've used D76 for most of my photos but last year I tried Xtol, and I felt it was less contrasty than the D76. I preferred the D76 because of that. Recently I have been shooting with Ilford XP2 and of course you need to develop it using C-41, although the Digital Truth tables show that you can use a regular black and white developer as well, which I haven't tried. C-41 is a bit nastier chemical and you need to be careful handling it as well as disposal. But the XP2 negatives are beautiful. I may try a roll and develop it with either D76 or ID-11 sometime.
I used D-76 for years. It was the developer of choice at newspapers I worked at... until T-Max film and developer came out. It's great.