Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/26

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Re: Tmax 400
From: oguillemain@agora.fdn.fr (Olivier Guillemain)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 08:22:44 GMT
Organization: La Federation Continentale

> Ilford HP5+ is a FAR better 400 speed film in my 
> opinion. It is truley an improved Tri-x. Finer grain 
> and sharpness but has the wonderfull sparkle and 
> latitude of the original.
> I find TMAX 400 a truley boring


Read in Darkroom newsgroup :

My experience is similar to Stephen Sherman's. I've probably developed
100 rolls of Tmax 100 a year since it first came out. I've tried every
developer I can find and I keep coming back to HC-100 dilution B. I get
perfect results every time. I process at 70 degrees F and not at 68
because that last 2 degrees is very hard to achieve here in warm sunny
California. I follow Kodak's timing instructions exactly but I start
the developing timer as I begin to pour the liquid into the tank and I
time the dumping of the tank so that I am completely done with emptying
it just as the timer clicks off.

Sometimes when I am in a hurry to get something developed quickly and I
don't have any HC-110/B mixed up I have used Tmax developer, and I
always regret it. The tonal range is wrong in a way that is hard to
describe.
	-- Olivier

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