T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What developer do you use to get good negatives?
(120 roll films.)
So many developers to choose it is bewildering.

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

"Darkroom User" wrote

Is Kodak 400 2-TMY (120) a good choice for portraits?

Yes. TMX 100 is better if you have the light or can tolerate
a lower shutter speed.

What developer do you use to get good negatives?

D-76 is still the best general purpose developer.
ID-11 is another good choice. Xtol is very good
but still suffers from sudden death syndrome.

I like Microdol 1:3 for TMX but Kodak has stopped
making it. Claims are that Perceptol is just as
good but I haven't tried it.

HC-110 is good if you need negatives in a hurry,
not so good otherwise.

So many developers to choose it is bewildering.

But very few really good ones... It is possible
to get negatives out of just about anything - coffee,
Tylenol, vitamin tablets, peat moss - and somewhere
there is someone who will swear by any of them.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
http://www.darkroomautomation.com/da-main.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

"Darkroom User"
wrote in message
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Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What
developer do you
use to get good negatives?
(120 roll films.)
So many developers to choose it is bewildering.




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Darkroom User

I've used T-Max 400 for portraits for a long time. I
like its quality very much. I usually process it in D-76
diluted 1:1.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

Most of my b&w activities are in medium format but I've had some
projects in the past year or so with TMY-2 in 35mm and it seems that
Xtol and this film were made for each other (and maybe that's the
case!). Xtol 1:1 has given me easy-to-print results, rating at 320.
I've only done a few TMY-2 rolls in 120 as it seems I tend to use my
"go-to" film/developer combos for things that matter more in 120 and
4x5 so far. It certainly looks to have great potential in 120 and
4X5, though. I've played a bit with some sheets in 4x5 in Xtol and
PyroCat and it seems that it has good potential and I like the idea of
not needing to deal with as much in reciprocity issues like most other
films.

An acquaintance gets beautiful results in D76 1:1 as others have
mentioned. I think you could start with one of these basic soups and
get very nice results quickly in your project. Most of his portraits
display great skin tones and transitions. He uses D76 simply because
that's what he's used for many years on everything. I think anyone
reviewing his results would be very pleased.

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:03:30 +0000, Darkroom User
wrote:


Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What developer do you
use to get good negatives?
(120 roll films.)
So many developers to choose it is bewildering.

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

In article , Darkroom User
wrote:


Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What developer do you
use to
get good negatives?
(120 roll films.)
So many developers to choose it is bewildering.




--
Darkroom User

The slower the film, the better.

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

In article , Nicholas
O. Lindan wrote:

What developer do you use to get good negatives?

I've been out of it a while. Do they still make TMAX developer. It was
all made together to work together. If not, then I'd go D-76 1:1.

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

On 2010-10-31 16:03, Darkroom User wrote:

Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What developer do you
use to get good negatives?
(120 roll films.)
So many developers to choose it is bewildering.

Both TMAX RS and D-76 1+1 seem to work very well.

I concur that D-76, 1+1 is a good choice for T-MAX 400.
I have switched to this recently for studio portraiture photography with my RZ67.
I use an ambient & flash incident meter set to ISO 250 to allow for bellows extension (exposure compensation) and develop normally according to the Kodak publication.

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

"Mr. Strat" wrote in message
...
In article
, Nicholas
O. Lindan wrote:

What developer do you use to get good negatives?

I've been out of it a while. Do they still make TMAX
developer. It was
all made together to work together. If not, then I'd go
D-76 1:1.

Actually, T-Max is just a trade name and T-Max developer
was NOT made specially for T-Max film although it works well
for pushing. Probablly D-76 was used during the research on
the T-Max emulsions. Xtol is close to being the optimum
developer for it, finer grain than T-Max and about the same
speed. However, T-Max works well in many developers.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA

T-MAX 400 For Studio Portraits?
 

Przyjazny wrote:
: On 2010-10-31 16:03, Darkroom User wrote:
:
: Is Kodak 400 2-TMY a good choice for portraits? What developer do you
: use to get good negatives?
: (120 roll films.)
: So many developers to choose it is bewildering.

: Both TMAX RS and D-76 1+1 seem to work very well.

I prefer the TMAX developer to TMAX-RS for tmax film.
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