Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] Mixing XTOL
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Wed Jul 27 18:59:02 2005
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actually i seem to recall 4-5 years ago Kodak reformulated tri-x
(though stopped short of calling it Quad-X).  i read the article in
Darkroom Techniques, i seem to recall the new XXX had better grain and
acutance than tmax 400, or something like that.  being an ilford
guy, i'm sorry i don't recall more.

-rei


On Jul27 11:37, feli wrote:
> 
> That's my thinking. [Tri-X] still is the best selling b/w film around and  
> the R&D was paid for a looooong time
> ago. It's probably also a fairly simple stock to manufacture. Even if  
> worldwide sales dropped to a fraction of
> what it is today, it would still be a very profitable business for  
> someone.
> ;-)

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey
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