Recent content by ciocc

Vernal Falls, Yosemite. Fujifilm GF670. Tmax 100.

For those that may be interested: I wanted to verify the claim that Tmax 100 will develop RGB separations to the same contrast. I loaded up a roll of Tmax 100 into my 6x7 camera and took a pic of a "still life" under flash. I included a Kodak color separation guide and reflection grayscale...

Thanks for that post by Drew. He is correct. This is how it was done "back in the day" of Carbro and Dye Transfer. I'm suffering from nostalgia. Dye Transfer and Carbro is dead, but Carbon is within reach of amateurs like myself.

As you may have gathered, I'm an extremely lazy person. One of the most lazy people you'll meet. That's why I'm going to shoot my color subject in a "studio" environment with daylight balanced flash. I'll have control over the color temperature and it should be repeatable.

Thanks Drew, you've confirmed what I suspected. Tmax 100/3200 are the only Tmax films with matching contrast curves for the seps. Indeed it saves a lot of work. That's why I was hoping that Tmax 400 also shared that characteristic. As I wrote earlier, I may be able to use Tmax 100 after all...

"neutral enough" is all I'm going for. I'm a hobbyist, not a professional shooting for a client in the advertising industry. So accurate color rendition isn't necessary. Just want a reasonable copy of the subject, not something unrecognizable due to crazy colors. It's just a project, to see...

Correct. Neutral grey is the desired goal. Since I'm making my own pigment papers, a reasonable goal is something somewhat close to neutral gray. One popular procedure to determine the development times for each sep requires 16 sheets of film. 4x5 film isn't cheap. Tmax 100 eliminates all...

That's a fix for the different filter factors required for the RGB filters, resulting in different densities. The curves are above and below each other. Even then, within reason, this isn't even necessary as compensation can be made when exposing the seps. Another nice feature of Tmax is that...

I use FP4 for making monochrome carbon transfer prints. FP4 will absolutely work for direct, in-camera seps, as well as many other films. Unfortunately, the red, green and blue filter negatives do not develop to the same contrast when using the same development time for all three. This will...

Yes, at the end of the day, I'll need to do my own testing. I'll have to buy a box of Tmax 400 and verify.

Yes. The documentation states that the curves are the same for Tmax 100 and 3200. Silence regarding T-max 400. It will make my job of making separations much easier if I can develop all three negatives for the same time and get the same contrast. Why not use Tmax 100? Because I'll be...

Hello. I came across a photocopy of an old article that appears to have been written some time ago, apparently around the time Tmax film was introduced. It stated that until the "recent" introduction of two Tmax films, it was next to impossible to make direct in-camera color separations with...

I elected to return the paper for a full refund since the seller provided a return shipping label.

You don't have a choice. He's sold out. ;-)

I'm not sure what you're asking me. I'm not angry, if that's what you're asking me. I knew that it was possible the paper would be defective. I knew that the word "new" was meaningless in this context, as I knew the paper had been discontinued many moons ago. I had no problem spending 60...