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Almost the First Time

ColColt said:
If I can't get sharp images at 250 at f8 with a 50mm lens I may as well quit. No tripod necessary.
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Sorry my post was ambiguous to test the lens you will need panf+ and a tripod it is a clinical scalpel. You won't see the lens signature with a scanner and Tx.
Look at the MTFs.
The Tx is better than Trix but not as good as Tmax100 or Panf+.
If you shoot a panf+ cassette of a lens test chart you will need a microscope to look at the negatives...
 

with ti x it is
 
...and it's not that you are someone not knowing what hey are doing.I hate negative scanning.I's the worst way to get an image in my opinion.I'd rather stay analog.Sorry for your troubles;been there myself with Tmax and that was flat
 
John Bragg said:
Use the HC-110 with HP5+. It is a killer combination when used in the right way ! Examples here https://www.flickr.com/photos/25714267@N06/sets/72157646005579978
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You're right. HP5 looks better than I remember and the tonal range seems better as well. I ordered some from B&H to try as it's been a long time since I've used it. The photos look excellent.

I never got too concerned if a given roll of film was a bit curly or not as I was printing back then and using a grain magnifier so, no problem. With this scanner it's a different ball game. They need to have a built in focus devise for when you run up on problem negatives such as the ones I have.
 
You are drying the film too quickly, in conditions that don't have enough humidity.
 
They're just hung up to air dry like I've always done. I measured the humidity and it's right at 45%
 
Some films need 85-90 RH shower cubical... as earlier post.
 
I guess I'm just thick between the ears. I'm drying the same type film(Tri-X) as I did in the same room I use to and getting a more curled strip of negatives. It makes little sense to me. Nevertheless, I'll try the shower route next time. If I'm gong to continue to use this film, and I'd like to, I need to find some way to flatten them for scanning purposes.

Someone needs to come up with a scanner that has a built in vacuum to keep negatives such as this flat.
 
Tx is not Trix.
It is easy to up the humidity but you still might have problems.
If you want the same grain signature Kentmere 400 or HP5+ may still be to modern.
Scanning Trix is Nostalgia for the rest of us.
 
I have some HP5 on order and will try it with HC-110...maybe ID-11 as well. I'm just looking for the same quality I got back in the 80's, like this shot with Tri-X and HC-110.

Donnie029a by David Fincher, on Flickr
 
You will get better quality, once you adjust to the changes in the film.

Unless you liked the older grain.
 
I liked the old film as it was. I wish they'd never changed it. I used about every more common developer with the old Tri-X from FG-7 and Rodinal to HC-110 and ID-11 Plus. They were all good. It's just like at the grocery store. Let me get use to something and start liking it and in three months it disappears....sort of like my ex-wives.
 


Just in case you hadn't noticed, more than 1/3 of a century has passed since the 1980s.

I would hazard a guess that if you had continued to work with Tri-X over that 1/3 century, you would have appreciated its evolution.

I know that I really appreciate the improvements in the films over that time, even if I have switched to T-Max 400 for the high speed black and white photography.
 
Yes, I know. I'm a Luddite, Matt, and don't like change when something works for me. From what I've seen with these scans it hasn't gotten better. I tried T-Max a time or two some years ago but didn't like it and went back to Tri-X and occasionally Agfapan 400(another good B&W film).
 
No don't think you are like Ned.
What you have got is bad nostalgia.
Please don't mention APX400 there are others.
The 'Tx' and TMAX have both moved on.
As well as Kodak there is still Harman, Adox, Foma and Orwo.
Note you will need to buy the Orwo in 400 foot cans.
You may need a hood for the Planar.
 
As well as Kodak there is still Harman, Adox, Foma and Orwo.
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I know I may be behind the times but, I've never heard of those. I've shot Pan-X, Plus-X, FP-4, Tri-X, Agfapan 100 and 400, and HP-5-that's been it.

I like things that are tried and true like my Marantz 2265 receiver, Nakamichi ZX7 tape deck and Pioneer R707 reel to reel tape deck.
 

FP4 and HP5 are made by Harman.
 
They use to be made by Ilford...same name but a different company?
 
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