Orman,(posted 9025 days ago)I'm at the point of giving up on TMX also, but I want to understand exactly what the problem is before I do. The film has much to recommend it, but the highlights stink. They burn out easily and never have much snap. With XTOL 1:1 I noticed that the Dmax on the leader is very low. That means that the film has limited range to reproduce highlights, and overexposure is disastrous. In spite of this and on the advice of someone else, I tried "pulling" the film a bit, and the results were pretty good. Go figure. Now I'm starting my own step tablet and densitometer tests to really understand this stuff. The bottom line is that fighting with TMX has given me almost a decade of substandard negatives, and it's time to either fix it or change films! (as for Delta, it's not as readily available here in Rochester, home of "The Great Yellow Father")