TMAX P3200(TMZ) Now Shipping

I pre-ordered 5 rolls of TMZ from B&H. This past Sunday, I got a shipping notification on it, and it arrived today(it would have come yesterday had my work not been closed due to the weather).

 

Who else is getting theirs?

 

 

Also, of interest to me is that the Delta 3200 shipped in the same box expires in 2020. Apparently Kodak only trusts this film for ~18 months.

 

I try to shoot a roll of both this and the original TMZ this weekend.

I received mine last Saturday from Cinestill. I have 1 roll loaded in the camera. Hard to actually experiment with film during the week.

I preordered from CineStill, and I received my 10 rolls yesterday.

I pre-ordered mine, a total of 5 from Cinestill and got them today. I have Delta3200 already loaded and must likely will be doing some comparisons as well as compare it with tmax400, I threw mine in the freezer when In saw the expiration date, but should be fine for me.

Alright, I'm ready to roll to hopefully do some testing tomorrow.

 

I wanted to shoot TMZ along side Delta 3200, a film which I've never used before. I'm shooting both rolls at EI 3200, and will process them with the same developer(probably HC110 B to keep the times reasonable at 20º C).

 

To keep things fair, I wanted to use two bodies as similar as I could get. I have duplicates of a lot of Nikon film bodies, but a lot of my favorites are loaded at the moment. I started to use F4s, but then decided that my F2 Photomics haven't seen much attention lately. Plus, one of them is black, so I can easily distinguish which camera has which film type. I COULD have used an F2A, as I have two of those also, but both are chrome(I know I could switch the prisms, but to me there's no practical difference since I'll be using MF lenses with a coupling fork anyway).

 

Of course, I'm not married to any one particular lens, but I figured a 50mm 1.4 was as good of a start as any. One is wearing an AI, and the other an AI-s. I could have put non-AI 50m 1.4s on them, but most of the ones I have came as "original" lenses on Fs, and I like to more or less keep them that way.

 

First of all, I apologize for the crummy cell phone photos. Hopefully I can show nice scans tomorrow or Sunday.

 

 

In any case, I was also curious about the DX coding. I remembered the old TMZ being 3200, but wasn't sure about Delta. I had to avoid newer low end bodies for this reason, since in many cases you can't see what the DX code is reading and even if you can there's no way to over-ride it.

 

It's been so long since I've manually read a DX code that I'd have to look it up, but both films are coded the same. I was also curious as to the film can color. Kodak USE to use black with a gray lid for consumer film, and then used different color combinations for different films. I seem to recall-like a lot of other high speed films-the old TMZ coming in an all-black can(Fuji 1600 is the same way). As can be seen, they used a gray lid/translucent can as is standard on "pro" films now. I shoot such a tiny amount of Ilford in 35mm that I don't know much about their can colors, but I seem to recall my last roll of FP4+ as black with a gray lid.

 

 

So, we're all loaded and ready to go

 

 

If I can get this done this weekend, I'll get out some old TMZ for comparison next weekend.