Response to Can I get medium format quality from 35mm?

Well Lot, I was actually only talking about the new emulsions like Delta and Tmax, those that sort of makes todays 400 equal yesterdays 100 in grain size and sharpness, not the older ones like TriX or PanF.

That's why I said that 35 mm could probably take over much of what have been the main purpose for MF, sitting on a tripod with 25-100 ASA film in it. That reality would have me shiver with cold fear if I was CEO of a company that manufactored MF gear.
I know that lot's of adverticing photographers have made that MF->35 transition in color during the last 5-10 years.

That's what makes the new Pentax 645n double brilliant. They have suceeded in the rare art of turning disaster into succes and improvement, by developing a new market for MF gear - handheld reportage/street/action/animals shooting with a MF SLR.
Had it not been for the new emulsions, especially the actually very usefull quicker than 400 ASA ones, that camera would not have been such a succes.

I have never been a TriX user, but I seem to recall someone telling me that what's sold under the TriX trademark is actually not the same emulsion in every format. Can someone confirm this?
Normally the difference in format with the same film is just larger neg's with the usual benefits.

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