Re: [Leica] Yech Pan in Yucknidol

["Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

Mike, no doubt this is true in regards to pictures you would actually PAY 
for, but the point of the original note was a test of lenses and for that 
Tri-x is not a demanding medium.

As for Tech Pan's tonal qualities:  I have found this film to be quite nice 
when properly exposed and developed.  It is somewhat more red sensitive, but 
otherwise a very smooth and enlargable film.

I don't find 25 asa a problem in outdoor photography.  In fact just for 
shits and giggles I have done a fair amount of street photography with this 
stuff.  You can isolate a person very distinctly at f 2.0.....It's 
interesting that 25 ASA today is unbearably slow, but was considered high 
speed by the photographers in the 30's who made this format, and the Leica a 
success.

Technidol is the only way I know to get this stuff to work right, and it IS 
finicky!  It goes bad in a heartbeat, and is VERY easy to overdevelop.  In 
fact I have found Kodaks time reccomdations to be way too long for a usable 
negative; one that prints on #2-3 paper without special tricks or voo doo 
spells.

That said, don't think I am bashing Tri-x....It is my film of choice for 75% 
of my shooting.  (Illford delta 100 is second, on reccomendation some time 
ago of a LUG participant)

Best Wishes
Dan



>
>Tonal properties and gradation are more important than sharpness for
>black-and-white photography. In this respect, Tri-X beats Tech Pan hands
>down.
>
>--Mike (who is REALLY getting sick of receiving portfolios of rotten,
>tonally awful pictures on Tech Pan developed in Technidol at the
>magazine, from self-congratulatory "photographers" who think they're
>doing something special and deserving of praise...present company not
>implied to be included in this generalization. I did once receive a Tech
>Pan portfolio that looked okay [from Bob Clemens, who was a Kodak staff
>photographer for three decades], so it IS possible.)
>

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