Customer Reviews

KODAK T-Max 400 Pro Black & White Film [24 Exposures]

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This is a decent and relatively flexible fast b&w with horrible tonal range. There is not enough detail in highlights or shadows with this film as compared to Ilford and other company's offerings. It is all around just not very impressive. Yes, it is true that it is can be pushed, pulled and do the hokey pokey, but whatever you use it for, the negatives produced are flat and without the kind of range that other 400 speed 35mm b&w films are capable of. It is also not the most flexible film in its category. While some companies are continually improving their film and paper products, Kodak is apparently content to offer the same poor quality film they've been offering for at least 10 years now.

I have used this film in a B & W photo class. I really like it because you can expose it as ISO 200 and it gives you a well-exposed negative in daylight. With reciprocity correction (needing to over-expose when indicated exposure falls higher than 1 second) it also gives excellent night time pictures. Best of all as a B & W film it is pretty uniform in its response to different colors of light. It is quite fine-grained and it is easy to make a crisp eight by ten enlargement without getting grainy.