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[timor]

How do Double X and Tri X compare?

Other members of RFF shooting DXN:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52426
and some opinions here:
http://www.project-double-x.org/about.html

 

[forsakenrider]

Wow a bunch of you montrealer's in here! next time someone does a big order I want in on that!

Frank, If you want to try Double X but dont want it all I'm sure some one would split it with you ;-)

 

[timor]

Yes Frank, want to try it ? I can get you couple of rolls.

 

[forsakenrider]

this thread is making be want to try some double x!

 

[FrankS]

Yes Frank, want to try it ? I can get you couple of rolls.

Timor, thanks for your kind offer. I'll be heading into Toronto this week and plan to pick up a bulk roll.

 

[taskoni]

Other members of RFF shooting DXN:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52426
and some opinions here:
http://www.project-double-x.org/about.html

My personal experience shows that Double X is good for scanning but not so nice for wet printing. It was made for projecting purposes where the Tri-X is meant for printing (even tho it feels like a technical film to me). I never liked Tri-X printed because of the overall gray look it delivers and the T-grain that I find unpleasant, so I might be not very objective.
Saying that I would choose Tri-X over XX if I am going to wet print my images.

Than again, Tom A. has GREAT shots taken with Double XX and his scans are absolutely technically perfect and beautiful. May be you should try a roll of 100 feet short end of XX to try it out Frank since you have longer experience with Tri-X and you will see the pros and cons right away.

 

[FrankS]

45 pages of double x info in the link that Timor provided! I'm working my way through it.

I use Rodinal and HC110 developers because of their low cost (use high dilution) and long shelf life. There is info on double X in Rodinal, but I don't use Rodinal on faster film because of excessive grain.

Anyone tried double x in HC110?

 

[timor]

Timor, thanks for your kind offer. I'll be heading into Toronto this week and plan to pick up a bulk roll.

Good. let me know. My e-mail is timorttt@gmail.com. I will make 30-40 feet roll for you (in darkness you never know 🙂).

 

[timor]

It was made for projecting purposes where the Tri-X is meant for printing (even tho it feels like a technical film to me). I never liked Tri-X printed because of the overall gray look it delivers and the T-grain that I find unpleasant, so I might be not very objective.

Not quite, DXN is not a projection film, it is a master negative film from which images have to be copied (nomen omen - wet) to projection film.
BTW Tri X is a random grain film, not a tabular grain. Tmax film has T-grain.

 

[timor]

Anyone tried double x in HC110?

Very often. Usualy 1+49.

 

[taskoni]

It was made for projecting purposes where the Tri-X is meant for printing (even tho it feels like a technical film to me). I never liked Tri-X printed because of the overall gray look it delivers and the T-grain that I find unpleasant, so I might be not very objective.

Not quite, DXN is not a projection film, it is a master negative film from which images have to be copied (nomen omen - wet) to projection film.
BTW Tri X is a random grain film, not a tabular grain. Tmax film has T-grain.

Ah, you are right about the grain! Thanks for correcting me on this one 🙂

 

[---f]

that kodak site show the DoubleXX rolls out of stock. :-(

 

[---f]

Wow a bunch of you montrealer's in here! next time someone does a big order I want in on that!

Frank, If you want to try Double X but dont want it all I'm sure some one would split it with you ;-)

I'm a transplanted Montrealer now in Vancouver. But I grew up in NDG.

 

[Mablo]

If you don't mind shooting 100 ASA film the Orwo 54 looks just right to my eyes. Tom A. has some examples on his Flickr stream.

 

[timor]

that kodak site show the DoubleXX rolls out of stock. :-(

:bang:We are putting to much pressure on Kodak.
A lot of stuff on Kodak website is out of stock. Hmm... Or this is pending the price increase, or Kodak is abandoning film production altogether. Will call them tomorrow.

 

[timor]

Update on Eastman Double X. Never mind Kodak website. Just talked to motion picture customer service and in Toronto is a batch of 8 400' rolls available. I did not ask for 1000' rolls.
Here is phone number:
416-761-4646

 

[FrankS]

Just bought a 100ft roll of TriX to tide me over. Thanks Timor, for the XX info.

 

[Benjamin Marks]

To return to a previous "prong" of this thread, what does the Kentmere look like? Is it like HP5+ or like Bergger 200?

 

[timor]

Is Bergger film available anywhere in US ? And then do they make any roll film ? Or just large format ?

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I think Badger Graphic used to sell Bergger film, or possibly freestyle.