Response to Tri-X or Tmax for beginning photo students?

I think you should definitely let your students know that T grain and Delta films are out there. The improvement in smoothness of tone that can be achieved with Tmax is about the equivalent of going up a format size. I don't agree that film development is any more critical with Tmax, but printing is. (anyway, teaching tight process control should be the norm) Used with Tmax developer these films can give straight line D/LogE curves up to 3.0D or more. Getting that on paper is a bit of an art.

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