Faster film speed is almost always better all else being equal. It allows use of faster shutter speeds with same aperture/DOF. The only time shutter faster speeds are a problem is if you end up needing a speed faster than your camera's top speed or you actually want to blur motion, both of which are very rare situations. The faster film speeds HELP/IMPROVE nearly almost all of the time.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: B&W developers and Tri-x ?? What Kodak claims and what reality is are often quite a distance apart. I'll comment no further other than to say the films are different enough to my eye and sensibility that they are nowhere near interchangeable. And even if they looked identical, there's the matter of one being two stops slower, allowing a different way of shooting with many cameras and lens combinations. Shel > [Original Message] > From: J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/24/2004 8:26:15 AM > Subject: RE: B&W developers and Tri-x ?? > > Apparantly KODAK claims the Tmax 400 can very closly emulate the old > Plus-X if developed a certain way. They don't make that claim for > tri-x and still offer it even though tri-x has lower resolution and > and larger grain than tmax400.
