On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 9:14:45 PM UTC-4, Tom Miller wrote:   
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   > > On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 3:03:37 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote:   
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   > >> On 10/07/2014 01:30 PM, Glen Walpert wrote:   
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   > >> > On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:08:01 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote:   
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   > >> > Out of curiosity I did a quick check and found that Tri-X is still   
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   > >> > available, possibly Plus-X also, old stock in both cases.  A search    
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   > >> > turn up the Kodak data sheets with density curves showing about 0.3 to   
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   > >> > better than 2.3 available with exposure and processing per the data   
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   > >> > sheet.  Density range of both films is about the same, possibly the   
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   > >> > smaller grain size of Plus-X or some other film would be advantageous.   
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   > >> > Cheers,   
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   > >> The newer stuff is called Tmax.   
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   > > Back in my mis-spent youth, we had a dark room and I did some BW    
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   > > developing.   
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   > > But no more stinky chemicals for me.   
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   > > Could I do an exposure, and have someone turn it into a negative with    
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   > > controllable properties? No automatic gain control in the development    
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   > > process. (ND between 0.3-0.5)   
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   > How many do you need?   
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   > It would take several runs to get it right, starting with a stepped    
   > exposure.   
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   > I still have all the chemicals except the fixer but that is still available.   
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   Well I was thinking more of sending film to some processing place.    
   If I got the exposure set would the processing be consistent?      
      
   How many?  Well we send 8 slides with each diode laser (but given the price   
   this may get cut down to 6.) and ~20 diode lasers/ year.  So a few hundred a   
   year.  (with the Wratten/Kodak stuff this is ~$1-2k/ year.  Which makes it   
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   George H.    
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