What? No mention of new T-Max 400?

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Kodak makes a major anoouncement yesterday & I see no mention of it here. Are Y'all asleep? Or did I miss it?

Kodak has made T-Max 400 "sharper and the finest grain of any 400 film." Available in 135, 120 AND sheet sizes.
 
I think that the fact that Kodak is still improving their films, especially B&W is great news indeed! Thank's for bringing this to our attention - I certainly missed it. :cool:
 
Yeah, this is banging over several major communities since yesterday such as APUG and LUG. Even though not Tri-X which takes the majority of my B&W work, yet great news Long Live Film and B&W in particular.
I tried out Tmax 400 recently, turns to be one easy to work with, however couldn't justify converting to it over Tri-X bearing in mind my scanning flow. There was quite subtle difference in grain, hardly noticeable to warrant the switch (if fine grain ISO 400 is necessary).
Perhaps the new one will indeed prove its innovation claim...
 
venchka said:
Kodak makes a major anoouncement yesterday & I see no mention of it here. Are Y'all asleep? Or did I miss it?

Kodak has made T-Max 400 "sharper and the finest grain of any 400 film." Available in 135, 120 AND sheet sizes.
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I mentioned it here, in response to someone who seems to haven woken up on the negative side of his/her bed.

matt fury said:
T-max 400 doesn't take a push like Tri-X does..
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Please relate this to the price of tea in China.

Cheers,

Earl
 
The relation is the OP asked why people seemed uninterested in the news of new Tmax. Personally, I am uninterested, as I can so rarely shoot at 400 iso.
 
I'm glad that Kodak is still working on their films. It's too bad their bothering with Tmax 400 - I always hated that stuff.

Tmax 100, now there was a NICE T-grain film.
 
I found the 'old' TMAX 400 to be a very good film for my ancient No.2 Model F Box Brownie. *Flinches at the mention of a non-RF*
Interested to see what the new film can do, though I doubt I'll be buying loads of it.
 
Push & Pull

Push & Pull

Agreed. The King of Push is Tri-X.

Early testers are claiming great results with the new T-Max 400 at 200-250. Filling that awkward gap between sub-100 films and Tri-X.

But hey, the fact that the folks from The Great Yellow Box are doing ANYTHING related to film is good news. The press release could have announced the end of film production.

The glass is always half full I think.
 
venchka said:
Agreed. The King of Push is Tri-X.

Early testers are claiming great results with the new T-Max 400 at 200-250. Filling that awkward gap between sub-100 films and Tri-X.

But hey, the fact that the folks from The Great Yellow Box are doing ANYTHING related to film is good news. The press release could have announced the end of film production.

The glass is always half full I think.
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I agree. I'm just happy they're still making film.

Where did you hear about early test results? If you know of some interesting articles somewhere, please post the links. I'm having a slow day. :D

Thanks,
Paul
 
I first read about it on the daily LUG digest. Search their archives on the web. I'm about to leave for the weekend and an orgy of film wasting in the country.
 
Heck, I still have a bunch of T-Max 100 I have to get around to using. Will this stuff come in the usual 100' rolls? Speaking of T-max not taking a push well... I pushed T-Max 400 to 25600 ASA and 51200 ASA. We did it as joke. Used hand held meters to figure out exposures and some mental gymnastics as well. Development times were much harder to figure out and quite long. The images were not of any great quailty, but there were images. I believe that I may still have a couple of the frames of negatives somewhere. I will look this weekend and see if I can find them.
 
I'm just happy that Kodak still think there's money to ba made in announcing a new film.

Personally, I like the results I got from BW400CN rather than 400 T-Max, but I didn't develop the Tmax roll myself, so I'll just shut up. :)
 
More from another thread here

More from another thread here

charjohncarter said:
Good news! Kodak is still developing and refining film. In recent email from John Sexton, he seems very excited that Kodak is still in the game.

Some bad news, the time times of development have changed slightly so you have to start testing. But at least they show you how to tell if you new or old TMax400.

Here is Kodak's information on New TMax400.

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&pq-locale=en_US&gpcid=0900688a807d5fe1


http://www.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/professional/products/films/bw/bwFilmQAs.pdf?id=0.2.22.14.17.14.6&lc=en

I won't copy John Sexton's email because I do not have permission. But he did state in that email: He processes the new T-MAX 400 120 film in D-76 1+1 for 7 minutes at 68F with manual agitation for 5 seconds every 30 seconds for normal development. He has been using an EI of 250 with the new emulsion.
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Thanks Carter!
 
rogue_designer said:
I'm glad that Kodak is still working on their films. It's too bad their bothering with Tmax 400 - I always hated that stuff.

Tmax 100, now there was a NICE T-grain film.
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It's funny you mention this. I have always felt the same way, not really liking TMax 400. But as I have been going through some old negs and scanning them, I came across something that made me say "Huh??? Why did I not like TMax 400??" Too bad I don't recall what developer I used. And forgive my pretty poor scanning/post skills.

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Update: I am now the proud owner of a roll of the new TMax 400! :D : D :D

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Tom & Tuulikki Abrahamsson here in Rochester as they attended the LHSA meeting. They had brought me a mini soft release that I had ordered, so we met around 4:00 yesterday at the hotel, had a drink with some other Leicaphiles and had a great time socializing.

Kodak had given every attendee a roll of the new TMax, but apparently Tom had smiled really big and they gave him two rolls, and he very kindly tossed me his spare. So I bought a mini softie, got a beer and a roll of film "hot off the coating line" in exchange ... heard great stories (including how the R4 was born) had lots of laughs ... now THAT's a great deal!

Hats off to Mr. A, Tuulikki, Kodak and a great bunch of guys visiting Big Yellow Box-ville.
 
That is the coolest milk delivery service! Are they still doing it that way? Probably not.

Congratulations on being in the right place at the right time. I don't suppose anyone offered a nice Leica body at a special price?
 
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