Is 36-exp 400TMY ("new TMY") available in 20-pack bricks in U.S.?

<p>B&H doesn't list it, nor does Adorama or Freestyle, though they all list 5-packs of 120 and 50-sheet boxes of 4x5. Should I be looking somewhere else? (Kodak.com, of course, just says "Check with your country's distributor.")</p>

<p>If you want that much at a time, thought of buying 100 ft reels instead?</p>

<p>Check with the digitaltruth website. They do have the 20 roll value pack listed in 120: http://www.digitaltruth.com/store/cart/KODAK-Professional-TMax-400-Film-120-roll-20-Roll-Value-Multi-Pack-p-1115.html</p>

<p>Just call B&H or email them. No reason you can't buy a 20 roll brick as that's how 35mm is usually shipped. There is no special package like the 120 pro packs or the 4x5 sheet film. I think if you order 50 or 100 35mm rolls they come loose in a big box. </p>

<p>Found it on digitaltruth, TMY 20 roll packs in 35mm: http://www.digitaltruth.com/store/cart/Black-White-p-1-c-365.html</p>

<p>OK, thanks Lex! Not a huge savings over buying individual rolls, I must say... I guess it'll come down to who charges least for shipping.</p>

<p>Yeh, I'm surprised there's such a price difference between TMY and Tri-X. Schools use a lot of T-Max 400, seems to be recommended by the instructors more often now and bundled by local shops.</p>

<p>I'm not surprised TMY-2 is more expensive than Tri-X, it's much harder to make the 2-electron sensitization emulsion, uses exotic chemicals, etc.<br>

It certainly is in bricks on the shelf at the local Calumet store.</p>

<p>A bulk loader and a 100 foot roll would save you mre in the long run. I bulk load all my 35mm and if I could find wide stuff I would bulk load my 120 and 220 lord knows I saved all the backing paper for some stupid reason.</p>

<p>I get Tri-X at one of the majors for (100' bulk / single roll) USD46.95 / 3.50 and TMY is 49.95 / 3.90. Nowhere near the +50% charged by digitaltruth.<br>

I'm pretty positive that Kodak have been using a lot of extra chemistry in their Tri-X production line too since the latest taming of The Oldie (2003?).</p>

 

<blockquote>I'm pretty positive that Kodak have been using a lot of extra chemistry in their Tri-X production line too since the latest taming of The Oldie (2003?).</blockquote>

<p>Wha?? Care to translate?</p>

<p>Ya that one got me too. The old and new TX seem to work just fine.</p>

<p>I find that when you buy brick quantities of film from Adorama or B&H (and presumably Freestyle but I've not tried it), you get a brick or box. I often get large quantities of 135-36 Fuji Superia in various sizes, and I get it in bricks anytime I order enough. It's easier for them to fill the order that way.</p>

<p>I still love loading my own with Bulk film I wonder why the Bulk loaders were sat 100 feet and not more? I know there were larger ones made but that was uncommon.<br>

If I like a film I shoot a bunch of it and boxes just make it ECO unfriendly.</p>

<p>My lines were mainly in reply to John's remark about the sensitization processes and those chemicals...<br>

To SMC, Larry, and whoever else got puzzled, please read:<br /> I believe that for getting the grain size of Tri-X even smaller when they did the last update on it (and leaving every other parameter/attribute unchanged!), they probably had to change just as much in the production process of the emulsion as they had to for TMY-2.<br /> (Now, if that was clearer...)</p>

<p>Got it.</p>

<p>Ah, I see. </p>