[Leica] grainy t-max 100

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Which vitamin C stuff, the Kodak or the FX50?

At 02:21 PM 4/16/2004, you wrote:
>People think that T-Max developer is what was designed to go with T-Max
>film, but is really a high energy developer for push processing that
>came along later.  My results were similar to yours.  Kodak perfected
>T-Max's image quality in D-76.  Try D-76 diluted, or that Vitamin C
>stuff Mark Rabiner likes.
>
>Tom Schofield
>125 St. Patricks Drive
>Danville, CA 94526
>
>Subject: [Leica] grainy t-max 100
>
>Okay, I showed a few of my T-MAX 100 images to a friend who observed
>that there
>was more grain in them than he had ever seen. "I like the effect but how
>did
>you do it."
>
>Uhhh....I wasn't shooting for grain. Now it might be that, as I asked
>before,
>that I was processing with old pre-diluted T-Max developer.
>
>But I was wondering what else I might have done?
>
>I'm following the Kodak recomendation of 7 fast inversions every 30
>seconds.
>
>I was processing at 68 F instead of 75 F.
>
>anyway...thoughts?
>
>thanks
>
>Adam
>
>
>
>
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