So for further fun with Tri-X 400, I thought I'd try a three stop push, for an EI of 3200. And then the clouds and the rain came and didn't give me a good bright scene to work with. No matter, I gave it a shot. For development, I again used the usual 1+9 dilution at 20 degrees C. 21 minutes in the soup with 30 seconds initial agitation, 10 seconds gentle agitation every minute, pretty much my usual. Set the camera to 3200 ISO with +/- 0 EV adjust and went out. Here's how that went.
Quick work like usual. This was at 6 PM on a cloudy day so it's not really good photography weather. Still, it's usable. And the grain has come out of hiding. Here's a 100% blow up from the center of the frame;
So this was looking good, all things said and done, and then I got to the pictures I took last night of the family cat. This... isn't so great.
The thing is, we've got whites to blacks, with many shades of gray in the middle. It just seems underexposed. I admit to having the camera in Auto mode when I took this and it seemed optimistic to me at 1/60th of a second. 1/30th was probably better, and this was with an f2.8 max prime, so I think this was the camera's meter being overly optimistic again. Happens.
Overall I think this is decent although obviously a lot more grain than when I pushed to 1600 last time around.
p.s. I keep getting water streaks on the negatives, second time in a row that water just ran down the negative and then 'froze' there. I need to change up how I'm using the wetting agent & water mixture after the final rinse under the tap.