Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>A more interesting comparison would be on Tech Pan developed in Technidol<<< ...Potentially high resolution, but in most other respects a pretty dreadful film-developer combination for practical photography. And most people haven't got the darkroom technique to get much out of this anyway. And the speed is a nearly insuperable disadvantage. Tonal properties and gradation are more important than sharpness for black-and-white photography. In this respect, Tri-X beats Tech Pan hands down. - --Mike (who is REALLY getting sick of receiving portfolios of rotten, tonally awful pictures on Tech Pan developed in Technidol at the magazine, from self-congratulatory "photographers" who think they're doing something special and deserving of praise...present company not implied to be included in this generalization. I did once receive a Tech Pan portfolio that looked okay [from Bob Clemens, who was a Kodak staff photographer for three decades], so it IS possible.)