Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have used a lot of the tabular-grained films in the past couple of years, and gotten good results with all of them -- even TMY, which is widely hated -- and I'm still excited by their possibilities. But I think there is something in what you say: If we had been limited to these tab-grained films all these years and Tri-X had just been invented and introduced to the market in July of 2000, people would be falling all over themselves praising this terrific new film which avoids the occasional flat, sometimes even sickening, tonality of the 'older' Delta and TMAX films, and has only slightly larger grain. After a few dozen rolls of Delta 100/400, TMX, or TMY, I feel a rush of emotion when I go back to Tri-X or Pan F+. Delta 100 is a better film, of course -- it just doesn't look as good. But, hey, to judge a film by how it looks is nit-picking. New Ilford slogan: "Delta 100 -- Better Than it Looks". (Didn't Oscar Wilde say that Wagner's music is better than it sounds?) Frankly, I do love Delta 100. And TMAX 100. I'm also a confirmed Rodinal (ab)user. Pan F+ and Rodinal 1+50: Wow! - -A L Pete Su wrote: > I'm a young curmudgeon and never had much use for TMAX or the Delta films. > Tri-X and D76 1:1 is very hard to beat. > > If I want something sharper, I've been using Rodinal. > > Mostly 35mm. I don't mind grain the prints. I like it. > > Pete >