TECHNICAL DATA / REFERENCE December 1998 • F-33 KODAK PROFESSIONAL Black-and-White Films, Papers, and Chemicals Today you can push your creative limits further with Kodak Professional black-and-white products. Kodak offers you a wide array of black-and-white films, papers, and chemicals to meet your most demanding photographic and printmaking needs. You can count on these products for outstanding performance and versatility. Copyright Leif Zurmuhlen 1997 ©Eastman Kodak Company, 1998 KODAK BLACK- KODAK EKTAPAN Film / KODAK High Speed Infrared EKP Film / HIE, HSI AND-WHITE FILMS Has many applications in aerial, Panchromatic film, particularly suited industrial, scientific, and documentary for work with electronic flash. Speed photography. Also for abstract tone matched to produce black-and-white KODAK Commercial Film reproduction in pictorial applications. negatives when color films are also used. Not intended for high degrees of For copying continuous-tone black-and- • Film speed: Daylight, ISO 100; enlargement. white originals and applications when Tungsten, ISO 100 • Film speed: Normal ISO speed values red and green sensitivity are • Primary features: do not apply. Make trial exposures unnecessary or unwanted. – Fine grain, medium resolving under typical conditions. With a • Film speed: Daylight, EI 50; Tungsten, power KODAK WRATTEN Filter No. 25, try EI 8 – Moderate degree of enlargement a setting of EI 50 (daylight) or EI 125 •Primary features: – Retouching surface on both sides (tungsten) and bracket ± 2 stops. – Blue color sensitivity – 7-mil ESTAR Thick Base • Primary features: – Very fine grain, high resolving – Antihalation backing – Fine grain, moderately high power • Primary applications: contrast – KODAK 1 Safelight Filter – Advertising/illustration – Infrared-sensitive to (red) –Copying approximately 900 nm; maximum – 7-mil ESTAR Thick Base – Corporate/industrial sensitivity from 750 nm to 840 nm • Primary applications: –Fine art – Filter necessary for most – Advertising/illustration – Medical/scientific applications. For general –Copying –Portraiture photography, use a KODAK – Editorial • Recommended KODAK Developers: WRATTEN Gelatin Filter No. 25; • Recommended KODAK Developers: tray and tank—XTOL, T-MAX RS, for infrared photography, use a tray and tank— HC-110, DK-50, D-76, MICRODOL-X; WRATTEN Filter No. 87, 87C, or 89 DK-50, HC-110 KODAK VERSAMAT Processor or – Available on 4-mil ESTAR Base or Format: sheets other roller-transport processors— 7-mil ESTAR Thick Base Note: For more information, see DURAFLO RT Chemicals • Primary applications: KODAK Publications F-16 and E103BF. Formats: Long roll, sheet – Advertising/illustration Note: For more information, see –Aerial KODAK EKTAGRAPHIC HC KODAK Publications F-10 and E103BF. – Corporate/industrial Slide Film / HCS –Fine art EASTMAN Fine Grain –Landscape Orthochromatic film designed for – Law enforcement copying line drawings and text for Release Positive Film 5302 – Medical/scientific making reverse-text black-and-white KODAK Fine Grain Positive –Photo hobbyist title slides. Film 7302 – Portraiture • Film speed: Depends on developer • Recommended KODAK Developers: used Blue-sensitive films that provide XTOL, D-19, D-76, HC-110, T-MAX •Primary features: excellent definition, even with a high (roll film only) – Extremely high contrast degree of magnification. Use EASTMAN •Total darkness – Clear image areas can be colored Fine Grain Release Positive Film to make Formats: (HIE) 135, long roll (4-mil with water-soluble dyes or black-and-white slides from 35 mm ESTAR Base; (HSI) sheet (7-mil ESTAR watercolors color transparencies (two-step process Thick Base) – Color filter can be sandwiched with KODAK T-MAX 100 Professional Note: For more information, see with the transparency to produce a Film). Use Fine Grain Positive Film to KODAK Publications F-13 and E103BF. colored title slide make black-and-white-transparencies – KODAK 1A Safelight Filter (light from continuous-tone or line negatives. red) • Printing speed: 250 • Primary applications: • Primary features: –Copying – Blue-sensitive – Education – Extremely fine grain, high – Medical/scientific sharpness, high resolving power • Recommended KODAK Developers: – Tungsten balanced KODALITH Super RT, D-11 – KODAK OA Safelight Filter Format: 135 (greenish yellow) or 1A (light red) Note: For more information, see • Primary applications: KODAK Publications F-12 and E103BF. – Producing black-and-white slides from continuous-tone negatives • Recommended KODAK Developers: tray—D-76 (low contrast), DEKTOL (moderate contrast), D-11 (high contrast) Formats: (5302) long roll; (7302) sheet Note: For more information, see KODAK Publication E103BF. 2 KODAK PROFESSIONAL Black-and-White Films, Papers, and Chemicals • F-33 KODAK PLUS-X Pan KODAK Professional Copy KODAK T-MAX 100 Film / PX Film Professional Film / TMX KODAK PLUS-X Pan Copy film with increased highlight Ideal for a variety of applications. contrast for copying black-and-white Especially useful for detailed subjects Professional Film / PXP, continuous-tone originals. when maximum image quality is PXE, PXT • Film speed: Tungsten and quartz needed. (Also available on glass plates.) iodine, EI 12; pulsed xenon, EI 25; • Film speed: EI 100 Good general-purpose panchromatic • Primary features: film for use under most lighting white-flame arc, EI 25 • Primary features: –Panchromatic conditions except dim existing light. – Extremely high sharpness, PLUS-X Pan Professional Film / PXP has – Fine grain, medium resolving power extremely fine grain, very high a retouching surface on the emulsion resolving power side. PXE and PXT have a retouching – Orthochromatic – KODAK 2 Safelight Filter / dark – A very high degree of enlargement surface on the emulsion and the base – Expanded exposure latitude side. PLUS-X Pan Professional Film is red –ESTAR Thick Base – Very long straight line on recommended for studio use, characteristic curve particularly when a high degree of – Increased highlight contrast • Primary applications: • Primary applications: enlargement is needed. –Advertising • Film speed: ISO 125 –Copying • Recommended KODAK Developers: –Architectural •Primary features: –Copying – Extremely fine grain, excellent HC-110, DK-50, DURAFLO RT Chemicals – Corporate/industrial sharpness, high resolving power –Editorial • Primary applications: Format: sheet Note: For more information, see –Education – Advertising/illustration –Fine art KODAK Publications F-17 and E103BF. –Fine art –Landscape –Landscape – Medical/scientific – Portraiture KODAK Rapid Process – Photojournalism/sports • Recommended KODAK Developers: – Portraiture XTOL, T-MAX RS, T-MAX (rolls), Copy Film / RPC • Recommended KODAK Developers: HC-110, D-76, MICRODOL-X, DK-50, Low-contrast, blue-sensitive, direct XTOL, T-MAX, T-MAX RS, D-76, DURAFLO RT Chemicals duplicating film on a blue-tinted HC-110, DURAFLO RT Chemicals Formats: (PX) 135, long roll; (PXP) 120, polyester base. • Process to a black-and-white 220; (PXE) long roll; (PXT) sheet (7-mil • Film speed: Very slow transparency (EI 50) using the ESTAR Thick Base) • Primary features: KODAK T-MAX 100 Direct Positive Note: Note: For more information, see – Blue sensitive Film Developing Outfit KODAK Publications F-8 and E103BF. – For copying x-rays and other flat • Total darkness (no safelight art recommended) KODAK PROFESSIONAL – Positive image from a positive Formats: 135, 120, long roll, sheet, original with normal process KODAK READYLOAD Packets B/W Duplicating Film • Primary applications: Note: For more information, see SO-132 – Advertising/illustration KODAK Publications F-32 and E103BF. – Medical/scientific Orthochromatic, medium-contrast, • Recommended KODAK Developer: direct-positive film for one-step DK-50 duplication of continuous-tone black- Formats: 135, long roll and-white negatives. Long tonal range Note: For more information, see for high-quality duplicates. KODAK Publication E103BF. • Film speed: Very slow •Primary features: –Orthochromatic – Long tonal range for high-quality duplicates – KODAK 1A Safelight Filter / light red with a 15-watt bulb at least 4 feet from film – 7-mil ESTAR Thick Base • Primary applications –Copying –Dupe negative • Recommended KODAK Developers: D-76, DK-50, DEKTOL, XTOL, DURAFLO RT Chemicals Format: sheet Note: For more information, see KODAK Publications F-11 and E103BF. KODAK PROFESSIONAL Black-and-White Films, Papers, and Chemicals • F-33 3 KODAK PROFESSIONAL KODAK T-MAX 400 KODAK T-MAX P3200 T-MAX Black-and-White Professional Film / TMY Professional Film / TMZ Film T400 CN Especially useful for dimly lighted Multispeed panchromatic negative film Multi-purpose black-and-white film for subjects, fast shutter speeds, for that combines very high to ultra-high processing in Process C-41 with color extended flash range, and good depth of film speeds with finer grain than that of negative films. For printing on either field. other fast black-and-white films. Allows black-and-white papers or color • Film speed: EI 400 (also for use at you to take photographs in many negative papers. speeds of EI 800 and EI 1600) situations where photography was • Film speed: 400 • Primary features: previously impossible. •Primary features: –Panchromatic • Film speed: EI 800 to 25,000 with push – Wide exposure latitude – Very high sharpness, extremely processing – Extremely fine grain and high fine grain, high resolving power • Primary features: sharpness – High degree of enlargement – Wide exposure latitude – Excellent latent-image keeping