Recent content by Paul Verizzo

According to Microsoft Copilot, TMY-2 came out in 2007, more available in 2008. This confirms my own recollection. In 35mm. the edge marking will say so.

Indeed. With a hybrid "darkroom," just shoot color and convert to B&W. Outstanding. FWIW, the best color negative film Kodak ever made was a consumer product, HD400 in 24 exposure rolls. Very sharp, hence the HD. I still have quite a few rolls frozen, although I've not shot any in a long time.

Yup. If I had to shoot only one B&W film, TMY-2 would be it. Now, if I could only afford a new bulk roll....

Amen!

How sad. But that's capitalistic life. Once upon a time, America had dozens of auto manufacturers. It got whittled down to GM, Ford, Chrysler, and American Motors. The latter folded many years ago. Kodak's movie film business is a dinosaur. There is no film "look." Digital can do things...

If you look at the Kodak Darkroom Data Guide and it's rotary calculator for time/temp for a given film and developer, it is linear on the circular dial. Same separation per degree. Certainly possible that outside of the range in the guide, a process might become non-linear compared to those...

That was about 2010. Freestyle had an Arista product that was, actually was, PX and TX for....don't start crying....$2 a roll. Everyone knew it was Kodak and the employees knew it. Identical developing times and characteristics. I still have 4 rolls of PX and 1 of TX frozen. I just hate the...

I walk in the shadow of the master. Thanks! Since TMY is one of my top shelf films, thanks for those numbers.

As one who has spent decades trying film and developers with no official suggestions for ideas that interest me, well, well, well. I was cleaning up my shelf of photo books and literature came across this 1980 Kodak Darkroom Data Guide. I'm about to do another long run of...

I've not read page 2 of the comments, but so far no one has mentioned the champion of course grain: Kodak Royal X Pan. There's a surprising amount for sale on eBay here in the states. It ain't cheap, man, many times what it sold for sixty years ago...

Why don't you like polyester base? I have a hard time imagining any real world difference, but do enlighten me.

Freestyle! When I was a freshman at the University of Florida in 1964 or 1965, I made my first order with Freestyle. I vaguely recall is was some kind of 35mm slide film, 10 ASA. Not ISO! In 1981 I moved to LA. It was a couple of years before I took up photography after a hiatus, and of...

We could get into semantics since all smartphones use digital imaging, but I agree with you.

Interesting history. When I lived in Sarasota, FL from 2008-20015, in just those few years C-41 processing went from everywhere to none. Talking retail places, drug and grocery stores. My first minimum wage job was 1965 or 1966. $1.65/hr IIRC. I've looked up the CPI inflation from that...

If 3,000 rolls a night is medium sized, I can only wonder what a big plant does. No, you can't lose per roll and then make it up on volume. More rolls would just mean more financial loss. But a very low margin per roll, with lots of rolls, can become a fair profit over a time period. If the...