GRHazelton
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You misinterpreted my plea. I loved Plus-X.Yes, Plus-X was cringe-worthy crap.


You misinterpreted my plea. I loved Plus-X.Yes, Plus-X was cringe-worthy crap.
We need infrared (not the high-speed stuff, but the old Kodak Infrared from the 1960s).
You misinterpreted my plea. I loved Plus-X.It was my go-to film for yearsl
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What were the differences between the Kodak Infrared of the 60s and the HIE stuff that Kodak only stopped making a few years ago? Thanks
pentaxuser
P.S. Anyone else who knows can feel free to answer as well.
Panatomic X was discontinued before digital became mainstream, so if it wasn't popular enough to stay viable in the height of the film days, why would Kodak ever consider making it again?
IIRC (and some of the current and former Kodak people please correct me), they replaced PanX because it was hard to make, and also because the T-grain technology used in the Tmax films cut down on the silver used. PanX having the smallest consumer footprint at the time was the low hanging fruit-- it seemed to me at the time (late 1980s) that Kodak would have dropped all the X emulsions if they thought they could get away with it. They certainly had in their ad copy a lot of "Once you try these new Tgrain films you won't want anything else" kind of sentiment. They killed PX eventually, and have reformulated TriX several times rather than kill it outright, probably as a hedge against threads like this one. I wonder if many things that make PanX awesome-- fine grain, developable in anything, nearly immortal lifespan -- were intentional or not. I've seen early PanX ads that touted it as a "Medium speed fine grain" film, so time and technology do march on...
Can’t be fogged.
Did you know for 35mm Panatomic-X ... base tint (for anti-halation) is about 0.25
You never used it, but now you are an expert on its characteristics? What compels you to tell the world you would not buy or use it today?never used it when it was commonly available. Would not buy nor use it today.
...What compels you to tell the world you would not buy or use it today?
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