T-Max 120 results

[wayne_cornell2]

Acquired a Mamiya C220 recently and my first test roll was T-Max

400. First time I have shot that particular film being a long-time

fan of Tri-X.

The attached photo was developed according to Kodak times (12 1/2

min at 68 degrees) It produced a negative a little denser than I

would have preferred but it scanned nicely on my Canon 9950F. Next

time I'll probably drop about 30 seconds off the development.

All in all I was fairly pleased with the results from T-Max although

I want to shoot some Tri-X now for comparison.<div></div>

[john_shriver]

How fancy is your thermometer, do you have reason to think it's accurate to under 1 degree?

 

Did you use stop bath? Their times are based on using stop. Very small changes in processing technique strongly affect the development of T-MAX films.

[david_m]

Nice train shot. But it would have been a lot better in color. And you can transform a color shot to black and white easily in photoshop.

[wayne_cornell2]

Better in color? I guess it all depends on your tastes.

 

Speaking of tasts, over the years (using a variety of thermometers) I have found black and white film developed according Kodak specs comes out too dense for my taste. I guess "taste" is the operative word here, as the density might be fine for other photographers.

[r_hofland]

Rumor has it that the last thing you want to do to a tabular grained film, especially the T-Max family, is to overdevelop it, especially if you also overexposed it. That is unless you really like a lot of graininess. So if the negs looked a little dense, it would seem to me you accomplished one of the two! Much better actually be on the thin side with "just enough" shadow detail.