[pure-silver] Re: Opinion Please!
- From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:47 -0800 (PST)
After speaking to Kodak today, pxp can be run in microdol w/little speed loss
as their tests showed it to lose very little speed. It just isn't suited for
rotary processing. On that note, if you do use microdol, you may want to stock
up on it. Soon.
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From: BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, November 20, 2009 10:45:28 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Opinion Please!
DEAR ERIC,
Though
I was a Panatomic X (35 and 120) addict, I did use 120 Plus X from time to time
in the distant past. A few years ago, during the switch over of coating
machines at Kodak, we couldn’t get 120 TMX here in Barbados but
they could get m 120 Plus-X which I used to shoot some portraits and ads.
I was suddenly reminded what I liked about Plus-x…it was less red
sensitive than either TMX or TMY so it rendered the skin tones a bit richer…less
“porcelain” (too white compared to hair, clothing, etc.) than
TMX. It is grainier but those tones are lovely.
CHEERS!
BOB
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On Behalf Of Eric Nelson
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009
12:23 PM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Opinion
Please!
I have a client who has always
used Plus-x 120 for her portraits. One day I asked why she didn't use
tmax and she said it's because tmax "looks dead".
I thought, OK,
and one day she used a roll of tmax for the same subjects as she always shoots
and processed in tmax 1:7 it did lack vibrancy, and looked 'dead' on the proof
sheet.
Now I can't put it into specifics like d-log H curves or
finer grain or something more quantifiable, but with film, sometimes there's
more than what we can quantify at work, although I'm sure one who knows could.
I'm still a tmax/pyro kinda guy and don't use plus-x because it didn't
work well w/PMK, although others might have luck combining it w/some other
flavor of pyro or pyrocatechol.
Richard is absolutely correct re:the combination of Microdol and tmax 100.
Using an E.I. of 50
it is very fine grained and I had
a client that used it exclusively for his professional 35mm portrait business.
In 8x10 and 11x14 prints grain was not apparent at all. The combo
didn't work w/rotary processing as there were very small surge marks that
formed at the sprocket holes, so inversion had to be used for that combo.
So if graininess is to be avoided, definitely use that combo.
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