Originally posted by Jamey777 Here are some of the things I have done....
Tri-X shot @400 lab developed (looks fine, not as contrasty as I prefer)
Tri-X shot @320 HC-110B 8:30 (I pushed on purpose, these turned out great)
Tri-X shot @1600 HC-110B 16:00 (waaaaaaay too much dev, the scanner puked on these)
Tri-X shot @1600 HC-110B 13:30 (the scanner still blew out bald heads at this dev)
Tri-X shot @1600 HC-110B 13:30 (brighter environment, all was well on this roll)
I am probably overdeveloping. As for switching developers, on the Facebook Pakon 135 group (that is my scanner) folks are posting up insane (even 3200) tri-x in xtol pics and I love the way they look.
So I guess I should say I only have a problem with high ISO :-)
Bringing this all back to the thread topic, I wanted to make sure the film had the latitude to catch bald heads at ISO 1600 :-)
Jamey
Why push 400TX so much when you can just shoot Delta 3200 at 1600 or whatever? I guess you like the grainy, high contrast look? Try Rodinal if you want more grain. We've been rambling on about the opposite. Shooting, say, 400 film at ISO 50 and 100 film at ISO 12 basically getting the opposite effect.