@John Galt ,
I live for threads like this.
Ask about pushing or developing in pyro or a myriad of other topics and I will pass.
But talk about how you liked Panatomic-X and found TMAX-100 is as close as you can get.
That’s what I had to do. I still have a couple hundred feet of Panatomic-X so haven’t been forced into the switch yet. But I shoot TMAX-100 and find
It just might do the trick.
You don’t have to shoot it at 32 though. Go to 64 and enjoy that extra stop of speed because you are not getting the resolution of Panatomic-X anyway.
Panatomic-X had a magical property that I have seen and Fred Picker wrote about. It really is 32, even with Zone System tests that rate every other film at 2/3 stop less than box speed.
I have no evidence that TMAX-100 holds its speed in Zone System tests. So I would rate it at 64.
Resolution schmesolution if you aren’t on a tripod and shooting at a speed faster than 1/lens mm handheld- because you only get that resolution when you do everything right.
As for the “don’t overexpose or you’ll ruin quality”. That’s a great graph to absorb. One stop is a small dip past peak. So you haven’t ruined anything. But you could improve it with one stop less overexposure (based on these theories)