My own interest is not in alt-process, but simply in using standard developers such as D-76 to make negatives that yield "full information" prints in silver with a minimum of printing hassle. For that application, I've found HP5 Plus to be vastly superior to TMY. And I've never gotten a "pronounced shoulder" and "muddy highlight detail" from HP5 Plus, whereas I've found it very difficult to make TMY negatives that have adequate shadow information for my taste without also having excessively dense highlights.
I don't mean to dump on TMY. I think that it is indeed an excellent film for certain uses, I'm in awe of Michael's and John's initiative and hard work in pulling off the TMY ULF order and I'm happy that he has succeeded in preserving a valuable additional option for us. But yeah, even if it wasn't intended that way, the piece did come across as a bit over the top, especially for those of us who aren't committed to alt-process and who don't want anything to do with pyro.
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