Where to find Tri X 8X10?

[Sal Santamaura]

I emailed Keith in February and he had a couple boxes of 8x10 Tri-X 400 in stock...

I think you mean 320TXP, not 400, which isn't offered in sheet sizes.

[Sal Santamaura]

Looking to get 8X10 TriX...Can anyone advise as to where to find any?

B&H got some today, but not a lot. Only 16 boxes in stock at this moment:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...x10_Tri_X.html

[koh303]

all gone

[koh303]

http://www.adorama.com/KK416481010.html

This looks like its in stock -

[Sal Santamaura]

http://www.adorama.com/KK416481010.html

This looks like its in stock -

Yes, looks like 105 boxes left there at this moment.

[Neal Chaves]

I have been using Ilford HP5+ for some time, since TXP became scarce and then expensive. After careful testing, I concluded that HP5+ is an identical clone of TXP. I use the same exposure and devlopment schemes for HP5+ that I worked out and used for TXP. For "normal" negatives, try rating HP5+ at 100 and develop in HC110B 68* for 5:00 in a tray. For higher speed, an excellent negative of just slightly shorter scale, but still quite "normal", will result from rating HP5+ at 400 and tray developing for 7:30 in HC110B 68*.

[Drew Wiley]

I don't see how anyone can call HP5 AND TriX even remotely identical. The grain structure and even the curve are different. A whole different look.

[Sal Santamaura]

all gone

Another 52 boxes just became available at B&H

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...x10_Tri_X.html

and Adorama must have gotten more in too. There are 108 boxes now available there:

http://www.adorama.com/KK416481010.html

[Neal Chaves]

I don't see how anyone can call HP5 AND TriX even remotely identical. The grain structure and even the curve are different. A whole different look.

I don't have any TXP left, and I am not going to buy any more at today's prices, or I would make a comparison. I used it for years in several formats and with several developers, working up my own exosure and development procedures for expansion and contraction by plotting curves, measuring densities and making proof prints. I tried and rejected the TMAX films due to the skewed curve shapes in conventional developers and the poorly separated mid-tones in the TMAX Developer. I feel I know what I am looking at, but even if I am mistaken, the results with HP5+ please me and that is what matters most.

Developer choice and development method can alter film curves and grain appearance so that they are not even remotely identical. If someone with fresh TXP and HP5+ would try my suggested times in HC110B and make straight prints of the same scene which show a significant difference between the two films as far as the viewing experience is concerned, I would be very interested.

[Jim Andrada]

Hi Neal

I'm up for the experiment. Can you PM me with your HC110B times - or better yet, post them in the thread?