kodak tri-x 400 film & vuescan

[David C Miers]

I recently picked up a roll of 400 Tri-X and developed in D76. I've not had
much luck getting good results from this film and scanning thus far. Any
opinions on this film and which film profile setup/settins to use in
vuescan? Light conditions were poor that day, which was the reason I was
searching for a 400 speed film. I usually use T-Max 100 and would have
probably went with the T-Max 400, but none was to be had that day. The
price of the film was significantly cheaper, so I suppose that should tell
me something too.

Dave

 

[Mendel Leisk]

I recently picked up a roll of 400 Tri-X and developed in D76. I've not had
much luck getting good results from this film and scanning thus far. Any
opinions on this film and which film profile setup/settins to use in
vuescan? Light conditions were poor that day, which was the reason I was
searching for a 400 speed film. I usually use T-Max 100 and would have
probably went with the T-Max 400, but none was to be had that day. The
price of the film was significantly cheaper, so I suppose that should tell
me something too.

Dave

My base setting for Tri-X has been to scan as "b/w negative" with
profile "Tmax400" with contrast index at D76ci:.55. I will move that
last up and down occasionally, to get lower or higher contrast.

With Scan Dual II, I've found brightness 7.0 and both black and white
points at .02% ok more often than not.

BUT, I'm also now experimenting with scanning as "image", with "lock
image color" ticked, all black and white points on the color tab set
to 0, and brightness at one. Outputting 48 bit rgb file thus.

Then, in Photoshop: levels adjustment (usually to 0) with gamma
adjustment (down to .5~.9), plus usually a light s-curve.

Desaturate and save (the tiff) as a jpeg.

This latter workflow seems to be giving better contrast, but it 's
more time consuming, somewhat hit or miss, and I'm still struggling.

Good luck with your efforts.