Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PJ's Help
From: Paul and Paula Butzi <butzi@halcyon.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 20:38:03 -0700

At 05:32 PM 5/13/98 , you wrote:
>OK you PJ's--I'm a commercial guy and for the first time in my life I am
asked
>to do a real grainy photo (don't ask).  This is a B&W job and contrast is
very
>narrow (all between about 3 stops).  Our lab is set up to do only XTOL so
>please no exotic developers.  My question is simply -- will I get more grain
>with T3200 or Tri-X pushed two stops?

Tri-X shot at ei400 and developed normally in XTOL is about as grainy
as TMZ (TMax 3200P) shot at ei800 and developed for ei800  (actually
Tri-X is very slightly more grainy).  I'm guessing (but have never tried it)
that Tri-X pushed two stops to 1600 is going to be grainier than TMZ by 
a decent margin.  If it's only a few rolls, it wouldn't be a big deal to
run the film in, say, TMax-RS or D-76 in hand tanks, and both of
those would probably be more grainy than XTOL.

On the other hand, it's not a big deal to expose a roll of each, and find
out, and then tell us what the results were!

- -Paul