Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With regards to TMAX 100 curves in particular, the film is known for its rather longish "straight line" portion in many developers. The net effect is that TMAX is capable of recording a large number of tones above what may be printable without some clever manipulation in the darkroom. In other words, it's got a long scale. A friend of mine uses TMAX 100 developed in HC-110 to produce 8X10 negatives suitable for platinum/paladium printing. The thing about TMAX is the detail is all there, but it can be challenging to print sometimes on silver gelatin paper. (I say say this fully aware that you can do the old N- development of Zone Sytem fame, but it tends to produce extremely dull and compressed midtones--yuck!) I'm not very familiar with TMAX 400, but I suppose one can reasonably extrapolate its behavior. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.