Originally Posted by
1erCru
Wasn't sure where to post this. I bought a 50 pack of Tmax 100. Initially I had some great results. I've read the film can be a little finicky but I didn't have many issues developing or shooting. I use XTOL. My standard development is 9 minutes @ 70 degrees.
About halfway through the pack I noticed the negatives were coming out what looked to be like thin. At the time I actually think I was over exposing by half a stop. I usually expose .1 to .2 over. After a batch of thin negatives I checked the camera and questioned the XTOL but my HP5 negatives were developing normally.
What I'm noticing now is that the negative itself looks good , not quite as dense as my HP5's but the tone looks nice. When I scan, no matter what I do the prescan is darker. I almost always need to increase the
Exposure value to around 1.5 to 2.5 and or profile the negative via Negafix with something like TMAX 400 or the FP4 / HP5 profile , effectively brightening the image.
Has anyone else had this issue or have a suggestion or comment regarding something I could change or tweak? Obviously I recently began shooting TMAX so maybe I don't know what a well exposed TMAX 100 negative should even look like.
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