I happen to have all three sets of Kodak rotary-processing recommendations
for Tmax 400 in front of me: the old (prior to move to new coating
facility)
Publication F-32, the "new" (first generation at new coating faciity)
F-4016,
and the "newest" (current production, "finer grain!") F-4032.
Kodak claims that the "finer grain" TMY -- the newest stuff -- has
"slightly"
different processing times than the generation immediately prior. If
their
table is to be believed -- nonsense.
The data in the newest -- F-4032 -- publication, for the "finer grain"
film appear, for rotary processing of sheet film, to exactly match the
data in the oldest -- F-32 -- publication, for the "old coating facility"
film.
Time to plug in the densitometer again and hope it's still working, I
suppose. I wonder what exactly Kodak is up to: did they revert production
to how (and where?) it used to be before the first set of changes?
--
Thor Lancelot Simon
tls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to
be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky
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