I bought some rolls of Tri-X 400 recently, and noticed vendor told me that the emulsion has just been changed. For what its worth, the box the film comes in looks different than it did just a couple of months ago. I feel kind of wary about this. I liked the grain of Tri-X compared to films such as TMax.
When the new formulations came out last year I was taken a class in B&W photography. The lab guy had an article that compared the new vs the old and the results seemed strange - Tri-X and Plus-X became more fine grained, T-Max 100 stayed about the same, T-Max 400 became grainier. But according to Kodak, they made some minor tweaks, mostly changing the emulsions to make them more resistant to dust problems.
I have not used the new Tri-X, Plus-X, of TMax 400 yet. About a year ago I shoot a couple of rolls of T-Max 100 and had problems developing it - I broke out a new roll recently and will develope it according to the new times to see how it works out.
- MCC ----- Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI -----
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