Kodak T-Max 400, 400TMY, Black & White Negative Film ISO 400, 35mm Size, 36 Exposure,

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0000520I7
• Item model number: T-MAX 400
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 7, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Kodak T-Max 400 Professional film offers high speed, very high sharpness, extremely fine grain, and high resolving power. It's especially useful for shooting fast action, for dimly lit scenes where you can't use flash, for subjects that require good depth of field combined with fast shutter speeds, and for hand-holding telephoto lenses for fast action or in dim light. This film is also useful for scientific and biomedical work, especially when fluorescent photography is required.

Product Description

KODAK T-MAX 400 Professional Film is a continuous-tone panchromatic black-and-white negative film especially useful for photographing dimly lighted subjects or fast action, for extending flash distance range, and for photographing subjects that require good depth of field and fast shutter speeds with maximum image quality for the film speed. It is also useful for scientific and biomedical work, especially when fluorescence photography is required. It has high speed (ISO 400/27° in most developers), very high sharpness, extremely fine grain, and high resolving power; it allows a high degree of enlargement. A continuous tone, panchromatic black-and-white negative film that is especially useful for photographing dimly lighted subjects, fast action, extended range flash pictures, and subjects that require good depth of field. This film is highly useful for scientific and biomedical work, especially when fluorescence photography is required. Its high speed (EI 400), very high sharpness, extremely fine grain, and high resolving power enable a high degree of enlargement. You can expose it at a speed of EI 800 with normal processing, or at EI 1600 with push-processing to obtain excellent results.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kodak's Finest High Speed Black and White Film, August 7, 2001

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John Kwok (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak T-Max 400, 400TMY, Black & White Negative Film ISO 400, 35mm Size, 36 Exposure, (Electronics)

Kodak T-MAX 400 black and white film is a versatile, fine grain high speed black and white film still widely used by professional and amateur photographers. Although there are other films in its speed and price range that may be better, most notably the new Ilford Delta 400, T-MAX 400 still holds its own because of its fine grain and rich contrast. I will occasionally use it, and am still quite impressed by the fine negatives it produces, especially when it is developed in T-MAX developer. If one wishes to buy a high speed black and white Kodak film, and is not interested in pushing it to ISO 800 or higher, then T-MAX 400 should be your first choice.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Versatily, beautiful film, with a lot of "snap", October 8, 2004

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Jennifer A. Kern (Ozone Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak T-Max 400, 400TMY, Black & White Negative Film ISO 400, 35mm Size, 36 Exposure, (Electronics)

As a long term Ilford user, I was reluctant to even try the Kodak TMax and determined not to like it. After 2 rolls it became my favorite film. The latitude is great.It was highly versatile even when over or under exposed.The contrast is like nothing I've ever seen in an amateur film. My negatives looked great from the get go, reducing the need for contrast corrections during print processing. I've never used a fi;m (as a serious student, not a professional) with better contrast and clarity. I found it has much better contrast and finer grain structure than the Ilford HP5, which was the film I used previously. It's versatility makes it a good film for point and shoot, but it's also a great film for the more advanced amateur or serious student. I LOVE it! The only negative is that it seems ot be a higher contrast film and you on't get as wide a range of grays as you would get with other fi;ms, but for an amteur, this fi;m is usually sufficient, and it more than makes up for it with ease of use. If I get more grays, but have to make the print grainy because I need a 4+ filter, then it cancels out any impact getting more grays would give me, in my experience.

10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars take it for what it is, May 26, 2001

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"snuffyalpine" (around chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak T-Max 400, 400TMY, Black & White Negative Film ISO 400, 35mm Size, 36 Exposure, (Electronics)

Many peope who write these film reviews are high school students who think they know everything from what they learned in a class or two. This film is perfect for what it is. It's not made for the professional photographer. If your going to shoot from an old point and shoot camera then this is perfect. If you just want to play around with black and white then there is no better. If you think that you want to go pro, then get professional kodak film(which at some places don't cost too much more). Pro film will have more grays and greater contrast blah blah blah, but with that kind of thinking, go ahead and buy medium or large format. Otherwise, take it for what it is.