Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:11 PM 8/1/2004, you wrote: >Your thoughts about why you dislike Tri-X and what you look for in >other films that are better would be instructive and I'd enjoy reading >them: what you want to exploit in Tri-X that you can't, how other >films solve that problem for you. That's really useful. > >Adam Adam - My opinion for what it's worth: I like Tri-X fine, but I prefer TMax. Tri-X is very contrasty and TMax has much more open shadows. It's smoother looking. I can push TMax a lot further without increasing the grain. I'm sure it has to do with the way I develop film, but after thousands of rolls over 30 years, I like TMax for the way I work. That may have nothing to do with the way anybody else works, however. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.workbookstock.com http://www.newscom.com http://www.americanphotojournalist.com