At 06:51 8/16/01, Chris wrote:
How do you guys find Tri-X compared with T-Max? I use
tmax at the moment, but have been toying with the idea
of trying trix.
Chris
Chris,
My limited experience with both films:
T-Max:
- contrastier
- much finer grained
- when you do get to the tabular grain, it's very, very harsh
- less gradation in midtones
- not as forgiving with exposure
Tri-X:
- lower contrast; very long in the toe
- coarser grain
- when you do get to the grain, it's softer, much like pebbles at the
bottom of a stream; many use this to lend a texture to the print
- superb mid-tones; very fine gradation and not muddy
- very forgiving with exposure; if anything is recorded on it you can
usually get some kind of print out of it
-- John
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