Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24

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Subject: [Leica] fine grain hig speed ?
From: daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Mon Jan 24 02:25:37 2005
References: <24854a924881e8.24881e824854a9@planet.nl>

The new Tri-X, 400TX, got even better:

http://www.phototechmag.com/previous-articles/2003/ma-dikerson/dickerson.html

or (if that gets broken)

http://tinyurl.com/69rkr

My own experience confirms what is written here. One of the authors was
behind the creation of Xtol.

Daniel

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 nathan.wajsman@planet.nl wrote:

> Hi Ruben,
>
> In my opinion, for 400 and even 800, nothing beats Tri-X developed in
> XTOL for overall tonality and grain. You will have more grain than with
> the slow films no matter what, but it will certainly not be
> objectionable. If you look at my PAWs from 2003 and first half of 2004,
> you will find lots of Tri-X images.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan

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