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Monday, 14th June, 2004

Notes from 14th Jun 2004
[posted at 10:00 GMT]    

I had develop for the first time Kodak 400TX, know as Tri-X. I was wondering about this film, everywhere you can read about it as it is the same kind of think for street photography like Leica.
I used Paterson Aculux 2 as usually for 9 minutes. The result look very well. I must say it is very similar to my favorite Fuji Neopan 400 same look. Only one thing bothers me. Even I wash the film quite long and use cleaning solution I always use for washing film after fixer, it still kept his purple color. I used fresh made batch of fixer. Withe Neopan I have base after cleaning nicely transparent.
I am planning soon start with printing again and than I will see more, especially grain comparison to Fuji Neopan. But so far it looks good but not better than my results from Neopan 400 and therefore I am not going to switch.