Ed Mathews wrote regarding tmax:
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> Oddly enough though, I did find that I need to increase the development and
> contrast of most other films, like Delta, FP4, and Tri-X. Maybe it's
> something in my water that interacts with T-Max, but I know many people
> (both locally and through the web) that feel the same way.
I do.
> I've been
> thinking of switching to distilled water for developing film, maybe I should
> try that and see if it makes any difference.
Probably not, though it can't hurt.
I have the same feeling regarding TMAX. I've never actually developed
any myself, but all the tmax negs I have from my pre-darkroom days have
tough highlights.
Now, this biased me against t-grain films and I haven't bothered with
any since I've had a darkroom, but recently I had to print some delta
100 negs. I was surprised at how nice they were, and how easy to print.
Granted, the scene was low contrast, but the skin tones are *great*.
Very sharp, low grain. So now I'm fiddling with that emulsion again. I
shot some portraits at a more normal and even high contrast recently,
but haven't printed them yet. If they look as nice, this may be my new
slow b+w portrait film.
I'll let you know how it goes.
tv
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