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I am also looking for a replacement. Perhaps a return to 8x10(?).
I have been using TP in 120 and to say that TP is only academically different than T-Max is to indicate to me that proper understanding of TP is lacking.
The developer of choice is TD-3 from Photographer's Formulary. Nothing else came close. Trying TP in an ordinary but diluted devloper did indeed produce inferior results. TD-3 is very tricky, especially concerning agitation.
This weekend, I pulled out film shot about 1966, Panatomic-X, and scanned the images. It is to cry over! I also have some 8x10 images from the same period, one image scanned on a Tango drum. The closeness between the 8x10 and the 120 is amazing.
OTOH, I shot some Ilford Delta about a week ago, and if I limit the print size to 8x8", it's acceptable. Other than that, forget it!
I can only say that if you equate T-Max 100 to TP, you must have something wrong with the TP processing. You haven't understood and obtained all it can offer. How about 20x20 prints that appear to be contact prints? T-Max would fold relative to TP at that enlargement.
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Several of the links at the bottom of the page don't work,
including "Contact Us".
Thank you
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Also, be sure that the holders have no light leaks,especially around the light trap. Nothing more aggravating than comung back with a dynamite image...and a light streak!
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Actually, what I want explained is how Charis got into position without any telltale traces, like footprints etc. It looks like she simply dropped onto the dune and didn't move.
I tried the same idea years ago on a dune east of The Dalles Oregon, (which has now disappeared, thanks to the Highway Dept.) and could never position the model without leaving a trace. And, she refused to simply fall. Too painful, it Appears!
Lawrence
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Wow, what a thread! Let me add a few comments.
First, backround.
I have been involved in photography 50+ years and a printer for 40+. My first encounter with AA was in 1961, the book "My Camera in the National Parks". In it, a brief explanation of the zone system, which I took to heart without actually learning it. Disaster!! I put important shadows on zone 1, using Adox R-14 in a Rolleicord. Fortunatly, the exposures were too good to be true, so I did a few believing the meter as well.
Ansel has been vilified even back then. Recovering from the mistake, I sought out help, attending a few meetings of the Chicago Camera Club, and when I asked About Ansel, a big sneer showed up on the face of a member. He trotted over to a file cabinet, laying on top was a mounted print of Ansel's covered in dust! "Here's what we think of him!" he stated, and tossed, I mean tossed, the print at me!
I never went back.
Another recollection. I now live in Portland OR, and a few years ago, the Oregon Historical Society had a retrospective on photographers who worked in Oregon. Ansel had one print,and as soon as I saw it I knew that he had printed it on Ilford Ilfobrom, with the same look I was getting, which I didn't like. And, here was a master, printing in the mid 60's who didn't have a better print than I did on that paper.
So, it seems that Ansel put his pants on one leg at a time, just as we do.
Ansel is the reason I continued on, and the reason is that, as hopeless as it was to consider following in his footsteps (touring Death Valley the first time, I would see a picture possibility unfolding and when I got to the primo spot, there in front of me was another Ansel, already done!) I realized that he hadn't photographed everything; there was lots more to do. And in doing it , I evolved my own sense of photographic possibilities.
Ansel doesn't need defending. He is a giant, upon whose shoulders one needs to stand if one is to see further.
Lawrence
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