Is that the Retropan 320? I haven't gotten to Foma yet in my slow exploration of film. Trying not to get too spread out.
Foma have just announced a new mono.
This is why I have such high hopes for Ferrania. They and Harman just might be the only hope for keeping film alive 10 years from now.
Is that the Retropan 320? I haven't gotten to Foma yet in my slow exploration of film. Trying not to get too spread out.
One of the best thread ever!
Now the Apug community is almost ready to start-up a new film producer company... We have only to decide where to settle in the production facilities (Usa to compete with Kodak? Asia to take advantage of low labour cost? Germany to put "made in Germany" on the label? Which format? What speed? What price? If Kodak is so stupid it would be easy to compete with...
My business plan:
Production: Asia
Format: only medium and large (in 35mm competition is fierce and digital results are satisfying)
Speed: only 100 and 400 (they meet 90% of demand)
Price: 30% less than Kodak
Distribuition channel: only on-line sale whith warehouse storage in Us and Europe (no retailers, no wholesales distributors that can only mark-up prices without any service to final consumer).
Financial resources: now is the less important issue because there are many funding sources (crow-funding, private equity and venture capital funds) and interest rates are at the minimum of all time.
This is my dream.
What's with Ferrania these days? Last I saw was that things were firing up about two years ago. Since then, crickets. At least to my ears.
...and Tmax100 never impressed me.
Really? I know opinions vary but Tmax 100 in Rodinal is sublime.
I'll try Tmax100 in Rodinal soon because I've just bought some 35mm rolls that were in offer. What I like in Trix (developed in Hc110 dil H) is the tonal separation between dark areas and the mid-tones. I couldn't reach this result with Tmax100 in Rodinal since now. I expose tmx@50 because Rodinal usually loose some speed and what I see is a murkier dark area, a sort of compression in the mid-tones and a quick move to highlights (it's difficult to describe a film by words, in particular with my poor english). My developing time for Tmax100@50 in Rodinal 1+50 is 10 min
TMax 100 was formulated with D76 in mind. Just use D76.
NB23 is correct - D-76 was the original release developer for the TMax films. Like any other films they were designed to give excellent results with D-76. TMax developer is Kodak's PQ developer designed for higher emulsion speed than D-76 (like a Microphen or DDX type). Kodak didn't have one of these at the time. Its "TMax" name should not be taken to mean it is necessarily optimized for TMax films specifically. For all we know they decided to call it "TMax" so that it might be viewed as a TMax family member. After all, Kodak was looking for ways to get people to accept/adopt the TMax films.
Whatever the case, the TMax films work wonderfully in a wide variety of developers, and contrary to what some people say, I have found them to be very easy to use.
NB23 is correct - D-76 was the original release developer for the TMax films. Like any other films they were designed to give excellent results with D-76. TMax developer is Kodak's PQ developer designed for higher emulsion speed than D-76 (like a Microphen or DDX type). Kodak didn't have one of these at the time. Its "TMax" name should not be taken to mean it is necessarily optimized for TMax films specifically. For all we know they decided to call it "TMax" so that it might be viewed as a TMax family member. After all, Kodak was looking for ways to get people to accept/adopt the TMax films.
Whatever the case, the TMax films work wonderfully in a wide variety of developers, and contrary to what some people say, I have found them to be very easy to use.
Those continuous price increases remind me of the documentary "Time Zero - the end of Polaroid film". It seems like Kodak's shareholders have decided to milk the cow. How can those people justify that bulk film got more expensive that rolls?
In 2015, Silver is back to the price of 2008-2010 and continues to fall.
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Guys, best deal on one of the BEST films on the market (according to many): TMax 400 BULK.
59.99$ from Henry's on ebay. 3 months expired.
When I see such a deal, I usually buy Three. So I purchased Three.
I hear what you are saying, and that's a great price on a great film. Throw it in the freezer, good for years.
But that won't always be around as an option. We MUST look at retail prices to figure out trends and rip-offs.
In film, I've always leaned to buying and supporting The Great Yellow Father. The home team and all that. But when bulk TMY-2 is at least 50% greater than Delta 400, and more than per roll pricing, one has to come to one's senses and say, "Enough!"
Unless the price drops substantially, back towards where it should be, I'm going to Ilford as my "go to" brand. And I'm very appreciative of Foma's efforts, but I don't think their films are up to Ilford's. A good bargain, especially under the Arista.edu relabeling, but as I showed on another thread, spend another 5% and get Ilford, at least in the 120 size.
and Tmax100 never impressed me.
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