Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] black and white beginner questions
From: Nick Hunter <nhunter1@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 23:09:57 -0500 (EST)

Marc James Small wrote:

>And the negatives produced by TMY are often too contrasty to print easily.
>Highlights, especially, often block up.

Marc,

Have you tried some different papers? T-max has more highlight contrast
relative to overall contrast. Kodak "fixed"this by introducing Polymax
paper which has less highlight contrast. Users of other films sometimes
find Polymax has dull highlights.

Nick Hunter