"UC" <uraniumcommittee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Oct 16, 8:18 pm, Dana Myers <dana.my...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>> Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> > My experience the T-Max 400 is quite different from
>> > UC's:
>> > I find the tone rendition good for both indoor and
>> > outdoor
>
> What the NEW TMY will look like is a mystery. I anticipate
> it will be
> somewhat more like Tri-X, but only slightly so. That is, I
> predict the
> curve will look more like that of TMX (T-Max 100) than of
> Tri-X Pan
> (400) or Plus-X Pan (125) for 35mm.
Lots of snipping of a very long thread...
I suspect that Kodak has taken the op****tunity to refine
the emulsion making process. I suspect it drifted with time
and performance may have suffered.
When Tri-X production was moved from the old B&W plant
to the color film plant a few years ago it changed a bit. I
think the same thing happened, the emulsion was not changed
so much as the process was brought back to optimum. At that
time people began re****ting they were getting finer grain
from ISO-400 Tri-X than from 400T-Max. This should not have
been the case and suggested to me that the T-Max line had
drifted. AFAIK, T-Max films have always been made in the
same plant as color film so I suspect the "new" TMY is
partly the result of getting the manufacturing process back
to par. Its likely that the new stuff may be slightly finer
than Tri-X as it should be. We shall see. Kodak has
published a developing chart for the new version of the film
but has not posted any sensitometric data yet.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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