New Tmax 400 Film

[Trevor Crone]

Dear Kodak,

TMX400 Readyloads please!

Long live dreams.

 

[pentaxuser]

Where the TMY looked like mud the TMY-2 jumped right off the paper. In fact, I may have to cut back on development with this new stuff.

On another thread there is a link to a conversation with John Sexton and a marketing guy from Kodak with a link to the Kodak Q&A. Kodak suggests a reduction of between 5& 10% in dev time, if I recall correctly and I think that John Sexton backs Kodak up on this

pentaxuser

 

[c6h6o3]

Wonder if there is more than one test emulsion? I repeated the test TMY versus TMY-2 with D76 1:1 and got the same result. Definitely less CI with TMY-2 for the same time of development.

Sandy King

It could be the developer, Sandy. 777 is weird stuff. I may try the same test with Pyrocat. I've still got about 4 rolls left.

 

[highpeak]

Yes, I tested the old and new TMY by developing a roll of each, together, in Pyrocat-HD. The new TMY has finer grain and greater apparent sharpness, but it will require slightly longer development time to reach the same CI as the current TMY.

Sandy

Mr. King, How is the new T-Max 400 stain with Pyrocat-HD?

Thanks,

Alex W.

 

[Harry Lime]

So, I suppose the big question for many of us is, how does it stack up to Tri-X?

It sounds like the grain will be finer, but does it handle highlights and shadows as well?

thanks,

HL

 

[sanking]

Mr. King, How is the new T-Max 400 stain with Pyrocat-HD?

Thanks,

Alex W.

Hi Alex,

Pretty nice I think.

Attached is a .jpeg of a recent shot I made with TMY-2 with Mamiya 7.

Unfortunately the scanned file is too contrasty and does not show the detail that is in shadow of the negative and print.

Sandy King

 

[Sirius Glass]

Hi Alex,

Pretty nice I think.

Attached is a .jpeg of a recent shot I made with TMY-2 with Mamiya 7.

Unfortunately the scanned file is too contrasty and does not show the detail that is in shadow of the negative and print.

Sandy King

I must be going blind! I do not see the .jpeg.

Please advise!

Steve

 

[sanking]

I must be going blind! I do not see the .jpeg.

Please advise!

Steve

I see it!!!!

Sandy

 

[JLP]

To much sun in SoCal
Don't miss it.


jan

 

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Sandy, that is a nice shot. There is nice detail in the clouds and I'll bet the shadows are very nice. Was that taken with a filter or without? Thanks.

Jim

 

[sanking]

Sandy, that is a nice shot. There is nice detail in the clouds and I'll bet the shadows are very nice. Was that taken with a filter or without? Thanks.

Jim

This is a very nice place. It is called the transparent bridge over the Reedy River Falls in Greenville, SC.

I am not certain about the filter. I made 8-10 exposures of this bridge and used a filter on some, and on some I did not. The light was changing a lot because there were clouds all around the sun so sometimes the scene worked best with the filter, the next second not. The light was pretty hard so I rated the film at 100 and developed for a SBR of 9.

Not sure why the image got so dark when I downsized it and uploaded it to APUG. On my screen, and when printed, this same file is a lot lighter and you can see the detail in the shadow underneath the bridge.

Sandy King

 

[Tom Hoskinson]

This is a very nice place. It is called the transparent bridge over the Reedy River Falls in Greenville, SC.

I am not certain about the filter. I made 8-10 exposures of this bridge and used a filter on some, and on some I did not. The light was changing a lot because there were clouds all around the sun so sometimes the scene worked best with the filter, the next second not. The light was pretty hard so I rated the film at 100 and developed for a SBR of 9.

Not sure why the image got so dark when I downsized it and uploaded it to APUG. On my screen, and when printed, this same file is a lot lighter and you can see the detail in the shadow underneath the bridge.

Sandy King

Nice shot Sandy, I'm still waiting for my TMY2 to arrive from B and H. Your jpeg is very pixilated. This often happens when using a lossy compression algorithm like jpeg. jpeg2000 is reported to give less pixilated image compression.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I see it!!!!

Sandy

Ok, now I see it.

Looks great.

Steve

 

[donbga]

Does anyone know if the new TMY will have new packaging? Any ideas when the 120 and 4x5 size will hit the shelves?

 

[Lee L]

Does anyone know if the new TMY will have new packaging? Any ideas when the 120 and 4x5 size will hit the shelves?

The Kodak site has samples of the new packaging, at least in 35mm. I'd expect a similar red "new and improved" banner on the other formats.

Lee

 

[film_guy]

Since Kodak released a newly-improved Tmax 400, is there a chance they'll release a newly-improved Tri-X?

 

[highpeak]

Hi Alex,

Pretty nice I think.

Attached is a .jpeg of a recent shot I made with TMY-2 with Mamiya 7.

Unfortunately the scanned file is too contrasty and does not show the detail that is in shadow of the negative and print.

Sandy King

Sandy, Nice picture! Thanks for the answer.

Alex W.

 

[Confusion Circle]

Since Kodak released a newly-improved Tmax 400, is there a chance they'll release a newly-improved Tri-X?

How can you improve on perfection??? I think some will say that Kodak improved it too much last time! Haha..

 

[gainer]

I loaded your picture into an editibg program. With just a little increased brightness I was able to get an idea of what the real thing must be. Very good work. Don't try to blame it on the film.

 

[Uncle Bill]

Since Kodak released a newly-improved Tmax 400, is there a chance they'll release a newly-improved Tri-X?

Don't even dare suggest such a thing.

 

[film_guy]

I guess the current Tri-X is already perfection?

Don't even dare suggest such a thing.

 

[Jedidiah Smith]

Hehe...yeah, Tri-X is well...Tri-X. Please don't let them change it! (more than it's already been changed in the last round.) It gives that simple, slightly dated look to a B&W composition. Newer films, ie T-Max 400 are for newer looks...they can update those all they want, to be "cutting edge" shaprness, etc.
Just my .02
Jed