Diffuse rms Granularity & Image Structure

[gainer]

The brownish tint is an indication of fine grain. I think it is like the refractive effect of a line grating.

Pat Gainer

[fhovie]

Tom, you mentioned that the new TRI-X has finer grain then TMAX 400, that sounds very promising. Maybe I will stick with what I have for years, TRI-X and HC110. I will post my results.

Thanks all for the input!

I really like TRI X but I have a hard time imagining that it could be finer grain than TMAX because of the shape of the grains and the structure of each film. I find TMAX to be very contrasty and not as compression or expansion friendly as I would prefer, other than that it is very fine grain. Did Kodak make this claim?
Frank

[Tom Duffy]

Frank,
no it was written in the aforementioned Photo Techniques article, written by two former film development people at Kodak. They also claim that Tri-x roll film, over time, has become more straight line than it was. They tested only roll film. TXP was not tested.
Tom