Re: [Leica] Tri-X

["Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com>]

You guys are welcome to your TRI-X. It's good film and all that, but just
let me have my APX 100. Like TRI-X it doesn't give the oatmeal grain of
T-MAX, but it produces such a fine grain and such smooth tonal gradiation
that you don't need the Delta (Ilford, and very good) or T-MAX. I recommend
it very highly to anyone in any camera. Good lenses bring out the best in
the film, and the film allows the good lenses to show what they can do. I
would encourage anyone to try it. In addition to its other good qualities,
it's inexpensive. I don't know how the customs in Ghana would respond to it,
but if you can get it into the country, you can take some excellent photos
wiht it.
happy shootign
Joe Stephenson

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ian Stanley <ianstanley@mistral.co.uk>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Tri-X


>At 02:29 AM 10/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>>To: "Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca. Us"
><leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>Subject: [Leica] Tri-X and Diopters - no connection between the two...
>>
>>1- Tri-X: After years of mucking around with color negative film - usually
>>400 asa - and both Illford XP-2 and the Kodak TCN - I recently decided to
go
>>"back to basics. " (The move was in-part inspired by the fact that my
son's
>>day job is in a camera store with a good processing operation).
>>Anyway...Tri-X...And I have to cast my vote with those who have commented
>>that Tri-X and Ms were made for each other. What a revelation! I swear
that,
>>but for a vacation at some point to some incredibly colorful spot in the
>>world, I've shot my last roll of color. Back to 100' rolls of Tri-X and my
>>older loader. In addition to the look, etc., there's also the point that I
>>just get it developed and a contact sheet made, and when and if I feel
like
>>getting anything blown up, I can print the 1 or 2 shots on a roll that I
>>really care about, rather than drowning in 4x6s from the auto-lab.
>>
>
>Greetings,
>
> I have been using TRI-X Pan 35mm & 4x5 developed in HC110 for so long now
>and still find it best suited for the work that I am doing.  When I was
>working in Ghana I took in bulk 35mm TRI-X as that was the only way I could
>get lots of film past the customs officials there.  Although some of my
>favourite prints of those days were made on that film generally I find that
>there is a difference between the bulk film and the pre-loaded cassettes. I
>also remember reading somewhere that the bulk film was actually designed
>for film rather than still cameras.  I can't confirm whether this is true
>or not but I do know that I prefer negs from the pre-loaded cassettes
>rather than the bulk.  Either way TRI-X is a wonderful film - enjoy.
>
> For what it's worth.
>
>Ian Stanley
>
>temporarily in
>Kingston, Lewes
>Sussex, England
>
>