Response to Q. Does TMX+XTOL=Trouble?

Yesterday I tried a roll, actually half a roll, at E.I. 25 and processed for 8 min at 68 (1:1). The results were suprisingly good, though with a little fine tuning they'd be even better. Maybe E.I. 50 and the same or a tad more development. Of course, that's getting close to the original recommendations! The Dmax on the leader was 1.57, pretty much as expected. Some extremely wide range scenes of snow directly into the sunlight, combined with a shadowed wood pile, came out better than I expected, but for normal scenes the contrast was a tad low. Still, this seems to be a combination best suited to very controlled lighting conditions and precise metering. If only they still made Panatomic-X...

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