I've got a question regarding exposure and development of B&W film in general: I only take "classic" pictures in black and white (I use a digital camera for color pictures because the two have very different purposes: my B&W pictures are supposed to be aesthetic/artistic, while I mostly use my ...

That's one of the reasons to think it was mostly aimed at shops rather than at individual users: the owner of said shop will have to develop lots of different types of film, and should be able to adapt Kodak's general instructions to everything they are tasked to develop.

I've used this formula and it has worked fine for me with various cameras and types of film, I've developed parts of the same film with commercial microphen and homebrewed one and have obtained similar results.

Thanks for the recipes! I don't always find microphen for sale locally and have to order ...