When was Kodak TMY introduced?

[sanking]

On another thread the question of when Kodak TMY film was introduced came up.

I looked at the Kodak Milestone page and could not find the answer. Could someone point me to a reliable source of information on this topic?

Sandy King

[Oren Grad]

I'll try to dig up some documentary evidence, but I'm pretty sure the introduction of both TMX and TMY was ca. 1987-88.

[Ted Harris]

I'll go with Oren's 87-88 as I have seen references on Kodak's site of experiments dealing with the possibility of TMY for motion picture film and decisions not to do so with the experiments dated 1990 and earlier.

[Oren Grad]

Bob Schwalberg previewed TMX/TMY under the codes XO-267 and XO-382 in the October 1986 issue of Popular Photography. First Kodak ad for TMX/TMY was in March 1987.

[sanking]

Hi Oren and Ted,

Thanks very much for the information. That is consistent with my recollection of when I first used the film.


Sandy

[tim atherton]

We were using a versionTMax 3200 in 80/81... but it wasn't released then

[Eric Leppanen]

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...xton-tmax.html

This article was published in early 1987; in it, John Sexton says:

I have had the opportunity to work extensively with the T-MAX films for the past three years. I was fortunate to be one of a few photographers to work with the films during their prototype development.

[Oren Grad]

We were using a versionTMax 3200 in 80/81... but it wasn't released then

Tim, perhaps you're remembering a different film. TMZ was introduced later than TMX/TMY; it seems a stretch that EK would have been sampling a version in development fully eight or nine years prior to release.

If I recall correctly, before TMZ, the speed demons were 2475 Recording Film and Royal-X pan.

[steve simmons]

I remember the house I was living in when T-Max was introduced. I moved to another place in 88 so it was commonly available before 88.

steve simmons

[tim atherton]

Tim, perhaps you're remembering a different film. TMZ was introduced later than TMX/TMY; it seems a stretch that EK would have been sampling a version in development fully eight or nine years prior to release.

If I recall correctly, before TMZ, the speed demons were 2475 Recording Film and Royal-X pan.

it was a classified product produced for the military that eventually became TMZ

we were using it for covert surveillance/counter-terorism ops back then - but it was certainly the early TMax 3200 (as a part of its operational use we were providing feedback to Kodak)