Working with Kodak Tri-X 400
May 13, 2021 17:37:42 #
Nice set, of course. It kind of rattled me going from a floating bar to Wood National Cemetery, which I think is Best om Set.
May 13, 2021 17:49:45 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Nice set, of course. It kind of rattled me going from a floating bar to Wood National Cemetery, which I think is Best om Set.
Thanks Jack, though here we might see the limitations of a B&W world, where the boat is busy greening the river in Chicago for St Patrick's Day.
May 13, 2021 17:50:53 #
SalvageDiver wrote:
Used tri-x when I first started in photography. While in the military (Korea) in the early 70's, this was all we could get. Didn't like the grain, but learned to live with it. After returning to the states, never really used it again.
Thank you SalvageDiver! Maybe Tri-X is calling you back with some ISO adjustments to how you shoot the film?
May 20, 2021 17:08:16 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Kodak Tri-X has been around in one form or another for a very long time. It is Kodak's most popular Black and White film, which probably says a lot right there. It's not the sharpest or finest grained film on the market, but a lot of people like its "look." ....
Tri-X a(and HP5+) are both great films that produce a similar look.
Both of them get a bad rap for looking grainy but if we examine the images you posted you can see that that grain is only visible in a narrow range of light gray tonality. Grain often shows up in clear or uniformly gray skies within a narrow range of brightness. Where the image is slightly lighter or darker than the problem range the grain is less of a problem.
The flip side of grain is that, if the image has a lot of detail and sharp edges, grain actually enhances the apparent sharpness.
Once you have collected 36 images on a roll, some of the images will probably benefit from the extra grain and others will not.
They also have different effective ISO response depending on how they are developed based on a careful measuring of their response.
If an image has plenty of detail to look at we are probably not going to notice the grain.
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