Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know exactly why Kodak discontinued Tri-X Pro rollfilm, except that in the discontinuation notice they said demand had dropped significantly. I always preferred Tri-X 400 too and thought it was very poor marketing that two dissimilar films could have confusingly similar names. But Kodak also does that with T-Max and T-Max RS developers and a number of other products. Marty On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > Tri-X PRO has nothing to do with Tri-X, except both are from Kodak :-) > > I used ~10 rolls. It's pretty good, but I like TMY-2 better, and Tri-X > better still. > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Pasvorn Boonmark <pasvorn at > boonmark.net>wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Tri-X Pro rollfilm has recently been discontinued too. ?I will miss >> > 220 - it was nice to be able to get twice as many shots. ?I won't miss >> > getting it onto the reels to develop it, something I always found a >> > little tricky. >> > >> > Marty >> > >> > >> Do you know the reason behind the Tri-X Pro discontinue? >> I still have some in my refrigerator. ?These are 220 and rated at ISO 320. >> >> I am not that impress, except that I have double the shots. :) >> Somehow, I like the non-Pro better. >> >> -Pasvorn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < > http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> > // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >