Response to Teach Me About TriX / TMY , Please

How many times have I heard people say that TMY is a difficult film to work with? That has simply not been my experience. I do hand held street photography and I want as much film speed as I can get without excessive grain. I used TRI-X (with D-76) for many years and got excellent results. However I found that I really couldn't rate the film at a higher EI than 250 without sacrificing good shadow detail; so, about two years ago, I began working with T-Max 400 and XTOL developer @ 1:1. I found that I could easily get an EI of 400 and finer grain than with TRI-X. As far as difficulty of use goes, all you need is to do is exercise reasonable care in exposing the film and developing it and you will get very consistent results. It really doesn't require anything that the average darkroom practicioner can't achieve with just reasonable attention to time, temperature and agitation. Try it. You will be delighted with the result.

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