I love free film...

[eli griggs]

especially good film from Kodak. Mine was delivered this evening and I'm ready to give it a try; have you gotten yours yet or am I late to this party?

I just received my some Kodak sample 35mm 36 exp. Tmax, 100 and 400 by post and I wanted to hear which developers you like.

Back-in-the-day, read late 80s-early 90s, I developed Tmax 100 extensively for a friend/client in his studio, as well as my own stuff when I was freelancing and it was really great stuff in Rodinal at box speed; I liked it much better than Pan-X and it was well behaved in most cases. I've not shot it much since and I understand its been 'improved' so I want some feed back.

I can do it in PKM Pyro, HC-110, Parodinal, or any other developer I can compound from a fair selection of chemicals in my darkroom, including glycin. I don't want to do Xtol or other Pyro developers at the moment so they're off the list.

I have no real experience with the 400 stuff, having tried it long ago and preferring Tri-X and HP5.

What do you like about this and how are you shooting and developing it? I will be shooting both films available light, outside in most cases.

Is it ok to push, at box speed or best pulled?

Post pics if you can so I can see your best, or worst, with Tmax please.

Cheers

 

[venchka]

I didn't know Kodak was sending out free film. Lucky you!

 

[iamzip]

Yes, how did you get free film?

 

[photo4ls]

Do tell, how did that happen, seeing how they (Kodak) were
not too willing to give some of the RFF members any
of the Ektar 100 samples. Although I was lucky enough to get some
to try.

 

[smiway]

I received a free roll of Ektar 100 & Tmax 400 from Kodak at the Photo Plus Expo held in NY last month. I havn't tried either one yet.

 

[eli griggs]

Wow, this really sucks, 'cause all I vaguely remember is responding to a Kodak offer for free samples of their Tmax 'Professional' films. It wasn't all that long ago but my memory is so bad for this sort of thing that, I though they might have run out of samples, LOL, so I was really surprised it showed up yesterday.

That is also why I thought others here had already received some, months ago; I wish I could explain it but I'm at a loss.

I think it was last year that a lot of us here received samples of Kodak Professional Portra Film, in 35mm or 120, so that might have led to something else. Normally I could back-track through my emails and other data on my Macbook, but I had to wipe it completely Friday and I've been reloading software for two days and everyone here knows how much fun that is.

Ektar 100, I wonder if I can get them to send me some of that too.

Sorry not to be able to help,

Eli