Re: [Leica] All hail Tri-X (or is it still top dog?)

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Thanks Dan.  I just got a couple of rolls of HP5+ that came with a pack of
paper as a promotion so I'll get to try that out.  Interesting that Ilford
films are rather hard to find retail here in Eastern Virginia.  Everybody
carries the paper though.

My Tri-x grain seems to vary by roll.  Grain is always good, but sometimes
is superfine.  I have only been buying a couple at a time so emulsion
batches will vary.  Development is always more or less the same, Xtol 1:1.
I usually develop at the ambient room temperature and maintain the same temp
through all solutions including the wash.  So starting temperature may also
be the variable.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>;
leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] All hail Tri-X (or is it still top dog?)


>>I'm souping everything in Xtol and my Tri-X pictures are much
>>finer grained than my old stuff.  The grain structure is still the same
but
>>you only see it on smoothly textured areas.  Is it the film or developer?
>>
>>Mike D
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>I would vote for the developer. I have my doubts that Tri-X has been
>improved upon and that the virtues of Tri-X are often overrated. I have
>used both Tri-X and HP5+ and the latter is miles ahead. This impression is
>confirmed in an article in LFI 8/99 by Roger Hicks.
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>Dan K.
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