Tri-X @6400

[Riccis]

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Anyone here pushed Tri-X this much? How did you like it?

 

Cheers,

[ddp]

I may have done it back in college - developed in Acufine I think. Grain...lots of it. Shadows were dense, but some of the situations were really pushing the envelope. Probably shooting basketball or poorly lit soccer games at night. Mostly done in PJ situations for the school paper and some experimenting for my art classes.

Pretty cool effect, might be interesting to see how some of your wedding work would look like that.

[tobey bilek]

Do try it on something that counts.

 

If a wedding photog did this to me, he would looking up at the judges bench.

[roguewave]

Riccis I 'd try Neopan 1600 & set for 3200. I have taken lots of night shots with sole source lights from a street lamp or light from a window with no issue. Get a set of test shots to judge. I went out around 2:00 AM with just available light in NYC and bracketed. All good. The Neopan, when pushed is still high contrast, but the grain is there, like Tri X. With the M2 or M3 it's no issue because you can always get another stop by shooting at 1/15 if necessary. With my 35 summilux wide open there's always enough light for the Neopan to shoot at 1600-3200. You can get the extra push in the developer, if you really need it.

[budrichard]

Never, it just won't handle it and even images for newspaper were not good. We used to use a 3200 ASA Kodak film years ago which was OK because the mothball grain size was lost in the Sports Page printing but the most we ever pushed Tri-X was one stop. The Editors and Head of the Photography Department were very strict about image quality and the only place low quality images from high speed film were allowed was in Sports because sometimes that all you had unless you could set up multiple flash beforehand.

I use Tmax 400 now with no pushing.-Dick

[tgray]

I've pushed it to 1600 and it was reasonably ok. I don't know about 6400. It works pretty well at 1250-1600 in Diafine. Even TMAX 3200 at 6400 looks pretty strained to my eyes.

 

If you need that speed, why not try Delta 3200 or TMAX 3200?

 

Oh yeah, and use a speed enhancing developer, like XTOL.

[menos I M6]

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Anyone here pushed Tri-X this much? How did you like it?

 

Cheers,

 

I just play around here with film.

I push R-D1 files regularly to ISO 3200 and 6400.

Tri-X I shoot mostly at 3200.

 

Here is a sample at 6400:

 

 

"mobile ride"

 

I find, that processing for ISO3200 in D76 or TMAX developer and further pushing the scans looks better, than developing for ISO6400.

[harryzet]

heres one example, the tabletennis-player

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/sport-freizeit/81280-f-r-gimli-2-a.html

as you can see its pretty bad, but it was enough quality for austrias largest newspaper back in 1985. the game was in a badly lit hall, exposure was (with a 85mm lens) at1,4 and 1/250 second, developed in hc 110 1+6 for 6min at 24 degree celsius (in the womans toilet of the sportshall, because it was the only room that could be darkened:-) )

[stealthman_1]

Tri-X is just fine at 6400, you just have to treat it right, it's perfectly capable at ISO3200, I'll have to go dig out a shot I have in mind.

 

Tri-X, ISO6400, Leica M6, Voigtlander 12mm f5.6, stand developed in Rodinal, two hours.