TXP 320 is gone. What now?

[5stringdeath]

No, I wasn't being facetious at all. Once you try the Rollei (made by what's left of the Agfa R&D labs in Belgium) films, you'll wonder how you ever got along w/out them.

Again, I'm being serious.

Not you :confused:

See, he put your username in BOLD ..... because you're pushing Rollei film. Get it? Like what other film would you push?

Its probably related to another ongoing thread about subtle commercial ties on the board.

Anyhow .... I got the joke.

 

[Rolleijoe]

Not you :confused:

See, he put your username in BOLD ..... because you're pushing Rollei film. Get it? Like what other film would you push?

Its probably related to another ongoing thread about subtle commercial ties on the board.

Anyhow .... I got the joke.

That bit went right past me. Wasn't thinking that way at all. I prefer shooting Rolleiflex cameras, hence the name.

 

[Jay Decker]

Down to the last hundred rolls...

Shot the last roll of a TXP 120 five roll box and wondered how many rolls of TXP 120 were left, so I counted. 20 five roll boxes... my last hundred rolls.

I plan to shoot the hell out of it and to toast that last roll with a good Scotch!

 

[Photo Engineer]

And here I am with 100 sheets of 4x5 in the freezer. I guess I have to throw it away!

PE

 

[slumry]

Gasp! You have a 100 rolls? Jay I will be right down with a really really good bottle of scotch, perhaps we can arrange a trade...

 

[Photo Engineer]

100 SHEETS. 4x5!!!!!!!

Read closely!!!!!

PE

 

[clayne]

100 SHEETS. 4x5!!!!!!!

Read closely!!!!!

PE

PE, the poster before you has a 100 rolls of film, read again.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. It is 12:30 here. Forgive me for I have sinned!

PE

 

[clayne]

You have sinned. 20 sheets of TXP please.

 

[slumry]

PE, I can still buy 4X5 tri-x locally so no scotch for you...yet, however, when they stop making it, then we can talk. So keep it in the fridge until then

 

[Athiril]

I've yet to see something definitive that makes me like TXP, as opposed simply to great photographers making great photography combined with great printing.


TXP doesn't seem like a magic bullet to me.

 

[Colin Corneau]

And I just bought another 5 pack of 120 TXP at the place I mentioned earlier in the thread. This film is not extinct in medium format...what gives here?

 

[Jay Decker]

I've yet to see something definitive that makes me like TXP, as opposed simply to great photographers making great photography combined with great printing.


TXP doesn't seem like a magic bullet to me.

True and true.

However, for me, using TXP is kind of like throwing down with an old lover, you know how to get her there... it's not that couldn't do it with a new lover, but you know the tricks and techniques to get the magic with the familiar.

 

[2F/2F]

True and true.

However, for me, using TXP is kind of like throwing down with an old lover, you know how to get her there... it's not that couldn't do it with a new lover, but you know the tricks and techniques to get the magic with the familiar.

Oh, TXP, how I love thee...

Let me count the ways...

(Don't worry; I'll get the countin' part as soon as we're done doin' it.)

 

[Andrew Moxom]

TXP in 120 is gone... Oh well... TMY-II can be made to work just as well to be honest, with better shadow detail. That said TXP had superb highlight capability if you exposed and developed it right, and it was made more for studio lighting and portraiture type work. TMY-II can be made to follow an almost exact similar response curve.... So no real love lost for me. I still have 60 rolls or so of TXP, but am using TMY-II more and more nowadays.

 

[Athiril]

True and true.

However, for me, using TXP is kind of like throwing down with an old lover, you know how to get her there... it's not that couldn't do it with a new lover, but you know the tricks and techniques to get the magic with the familiar.

TXP is still available in 120 here, I've considered trying it if I saw something compelling for the film itself, rather than compelling to improve my photography.

 

[Sirius Glass]

When the announcement was made about the discontinuation, I rushed out and bought ten rolls for myself and to keep them from the hoarders.

Steve

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

Sorry Mike but 120 is gone as well. There is sheet film still available and while Kodak says they are firmly committed to the sheet film, I highly doubt they will do a production run just for sheet film; if they are going to run 6000 feet to make sheet, why wouldn't you run 10000 feet and make 120 as well?

Sheet film and 120 film use a different support for the film - sheet film is designed to stay flat but roll film has to, well, roll. I'm fairly certain the sheet film is on a polyester base (Kodak's Estar base) while the roll film is on a certain designated thickness of acetate. So they're different master rolls for each product.
So it is viable that they're making it purely for the sheet film market.
But I agree, it sounds like bollocks.

 

[fschifano]

It's not bollocks. If Kodak were selling enough TX 320 to be profitable they'd still be making it. Apparently, they weren't, but they are selling enough in sheet film sizes to keep the product viable. Why is that so hard to believe?

 

[clayne]

It's not bollocks. If Kodak were selling enough TX 320 to be profitable they'd still be making it. Apparently, they weren't, but they are selling enough in sheet film sizes to keep the product viable. Why is that so hard to believe?

Because we've been chewing rolls of 320TXP all night. You got a problem with junkies?