These days, displaying the digital image file on the web, on our smartphones, is the thing. Unless you’re displaying in a gallery exhibit, who needs a paper print? Thank you, Clive, Gary and the others for your kind comments. In many ways, photography has provided a way to direct my travels and explorations. One can go almost anywhere in the world, so how do you choose? My wife and I try to find interesting places where time has passed by, where there are still visual elements of the past. We missed the Eastern bloc in 1989 when the Communist governments collapsed. Those countries would have been fascinating then! And we missed China in the 1970s and 1980s. But even in USA, there are countless small towns that look like a time warp (except for the ghastly strip malls, which are a scourge and curse on the American landscape), so there is plenty of Tri-X material yet to explore (and Panatomic-X – I still have about 15 rolls left).

So, being now more into medium format photography I was very pleased to see that Analogue Wonderland have been having a very good promotion on 120 size Kodak Tri-X 400 in boxes of 5 rolls.

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Nowadays, a film with its 400 speed is considered very much in the mid-range, but the versatility of Tri-X is arguably unrivalled.

Burma in 2014 was a fascinating destination, a country that had been semi-isolated for decades and was at the cusp of entering the modern economic world. I am not sure of the conditions now, but I recommend you go soon, before the developers pillage and bulldoze the architectural treasures. Botahtaung Jetty (Irrawaddy River), Rangoon, Burma (Leica M2, 50mm ƒ/2 Summicron v.4 lens) Tone and contrast is very good and grain just enough to give the images the character that I look for in an analogue image. This experiment has certainly encouraged me to use this film again as long as it isn’t priced a lot different to its’ competitors.

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No need to worry about updating procedures in relation to legislation and case law-leave that to our experts I’ve been shooting Tri-X continuously (and developing in D-76 continuously) since the mid-1960s. My parents were pros with their own little commercial studio, and Tri-X was an everyday staple for us, along with Plus-X and Ektapan (a 100-speed 4×5 sheet film that handled the fluorescent lighting we used for our product shots especially well). Tri-X also exists as a reversal film for the 16 mm and Super-8 cine film formats. The speed for tungsten lighting (3200 K) is ISO 160 and for daylight ISO 200 when processed as reversal. It can also be processed as a negative at a small loss of speed while the grain will be slightly increased.

New York City was always fun, but it was grungy and dangerous in the 1970s. That was the era of municipal bankruptcy and the painful shift from a manufacturing economic base to finance and banking. I wish I had explored more during that time of transition. In the photograph below, the World Trade Center was brand new and mired in controversy, and many floors were unoccupied. This negative is a mess, and I superimposed part of another frame on it. I must have changed films partway through the roll and mis-counted. I took this photograph only a few months before Philippe Petit made his famous high-wire walk between the Twin Towers on the morning of 7 August 1974. World Trade Center from Liberty Island, New York, March 1974 (Nikkormat FTn camera, 105mm Nikkor lens) I know that there’s many film photographers who find that crisp contrast of Tri-X too hard – many seem to prefer the more graduated contrast of Ilford’s HP5 (an excellent film in its own right). But Tri-X, like Kodachrome, is a film that helped define photojournalism in the latter half of the 20th Century, and it’s something of a miracle that you can still shoot with a film that documented 1950s jazz clubs, the Vietnam War and the birth of punk. The craft of photography has such a tool as well. It’s done tours in Vietnam, prowled alleys and side streets in every city in the world, and documented some of history’s most important moments. It’s our familiar friend in the green and yellow get-up, Kodak Tri-X. They will – with raised, excited voice – evangelize of its wide latitude that makes it usable in almost any situation. For all of the aforementioned, Tri-X has become a favorite of photojournalists and street photographers alike. I used Tri-X for many years as a newspaper photographer and love it’s character… just the right amount of grit. All of us on the staff regularly pushed the crap out of that film for indoor sports … the only way to get 1/500 @ 2.8 was to push it to 3200 and we had that down to a science; it held up beautifully. Know why? Because we knew our film. We knew what it was capable of and where it would fail.For starters, I don’t shoot all that much film nowadays, maybe six or eight rolls of b/w a year (some of them are half-frame, so it’s a bit more than that sounds.) Coupled with my not having a good location in my house for a giant enlarger anywhere near a water source, it just hasn’t seemed a priority. Not when scanning the negs works so well. Reflects procedures, policies and guidance which deal with day to day practicalities foster carers face Guitarists have the Fender Stratocaster, soldiers the AK-47, and handymen the world over have WD-40. These products have become the standard bearers in their fields; tools of the trade that are so accomplished they need no introduction. They’ve become so ubiquitous that even the inexperienced layman is familiar with their capabilities. A direct link to our trusted and recommended online resource, supporting practitioners to understand the Act and implement the principles effectively into practice.