Tri-x + D-76 T-Shirt editing

Tri-x + D-76 T-Shirt editingTri X + D 76: the classic. Kodaks Tri X 400 black and white film and Kodaks D 76 developer a pairing thats been the standard answer to what do I shoot and how do I develop it since before most darkrooms had electricity to spare. D 76 launched in 1927 and is still the best selling black and white developer ever made; Tri X arrived in 35mm in 1954. Together they became the house combination of mid century photojournalism: normal contrast, beautiful

It is how half the great street and reportage frames were made

trading a little shadow detail for more speed and that hard

true film speed

Only one of them you can control

several formats

governs your depth of field

A photography heartbeat t-shirt for the TLR faithful

I romanticise large format roughly twice a year — usually until I’m reminded that it means loading sheet film in a changing bag

A grizzly bear in a photographer’s vest

accurate lens distance scale

The joke lands because it is barely a joke: spend enough cold mornings in the field and you start to suspect the animals would make better photographers than the people chasing them

and the aperture pairs — f/4