Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Could someone please explain to me the difference between the old fashioned emulsions, and Tmax-like technology? I assumed (wrongly, I guess), that Tmax was a dye-based emulsion, which yielded unsharpness when pushed, but not grain. I haven't had good luck with the slow-speed Tmax films -- ridiculously high contrast -- but members of the Large Format list have pointed out that this can be solved through proper rating and processing. Still, I've always preferred Tri-X. Neopan 1600 is, I take it, the same kind of thing as Tri-X? (This is what happens when you're an autodidact; I never got those intensive technical courses that you have to take at photography school.) Douglas Cooper www.dysmedia.com > > Plus it has excellent tonality as > it's an old-fashioned thick emulsion. Grain is very sharp and not at all > objectionable.