I hadn't"t used TMax in a few years and had thought about switching from Tri-X but I like the Tri-X better and may even give HP5 another chance now that I know what I was doing wrong when scanning it.
I recently shot a roll of Ilford FP4 and whoa does that film look good! Once I am out of my current stock of Acros, I'll most probably stock up on that.
When I was wandering around last weekend, I bought four rolls of TMax 400 mostly to help film sales at Pro Photo Supply. I have ten rolls of Acros in the refrigerator which will be the next up once the other roll of TMax is finished. The TMax gave good results but I have no idea of why the live view of some of the negatives had a sepia tone. I’m really happy with the results from the XT-3 and all of the posted images are Linear Gamma NLP conversion with no other adjustments. Maybe I’ll order a mixed batch of FP-4 and HP-5 just to try something different.
re. the sepia tone - make sure in NLP you used B&W before you convert. And in LR when you import it from NLP make sure it also shows B&W. For some reason a couple of times LR defaults to colour and that creates the sepia tone.
I scanned the same negatives trying for an image I could post. None of them exhibited any of the sepia tone. All of the NLP setting were for B&W and I hadn't made any changes. When I was cutting the negatives for storage, I examined them for any residual traces of anti-halation backing but didn't find any. Maybe NLP read them as color negatives or maybe it was a one time glitch. They all converted just fine, so I can't complain.
Jul 20, 2024 at 04:12 PM
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