Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 2:01 PM -0700 5/15/02, Jim Brick wrote: >At 11:19 PM 5/15/2002 +0800, RT wrote: >>Lhttp://www.rtansa.freeservers.com/photo.htmloaded some new pictures taken >>two weeks ago, all shot with the M7 and Tri-Elmar mostly. I had some time >>off in Hong KOng while I was there for work, and I was trying out Tmax with >>Rodinal. Hope you will like it. >>Thanks and Rgds >>Roland >>Singapore >>http://www.rtansa.freeservers.com/photo.html >>main page is >>www.rtansa.freeservers.com > > > >Is it just my imagination, or does TMax record no shadow detail? >Your other photographs on other films have a great dynamic range. >These TMax photos seem to be missing all shadow detail. It just goes >black. It's like the HD curve was nearly vertical with the DMax >portion starting half way down. > >Good photographs... yes. >Really Sharp.............. yes. >Full scale......... no. > >Jim That's the main problem with TMax, and to a lesser extent, Delta. They have no real toe; it just drops off the deep end. Similarly, they don't have a shoulder like other films; once you overexpose, the information is gone. This is a slight exaggeration, but neither the toe nor the shoulder of these films have the gentle roll-off that similar portions of the Tri-X or HP5 curves do. - -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html