Response to XTOL negitives seem brown .. is this normal?

I should probably add that the thing that kept me coming back to TMX was the incredibly fine grain and the almost 4x5 appearance if everything was just right. I have some shots of electronic equipment from across the room where you can read every meter with a magnifier. Oddly though, the film often gives sharp results that don't have a visual perception of sharpness. I can't really define it (no pun intended), but it has to be some edge effect or lack thereof. Kodak's published curves using T-Max developer are amazingly straight, but my admittedly limited experience with that combination was less than pictorial. 1-1 tonal mapping is generally *not* desirable for pictorial work. It does look like a good combination for copy work. I haven't tried the RS developer, but it sounds interesting. I've recently switched to Ilford FP4+, though it's too early to offer any opinion on it.

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