Tri-X is GOAT BW film. Ridiculous exposure latitude even Kodak themselves says you can push it to 1600. Mega contrast.

Tmax has finer grain and not as much latitude. You can still blow your exposure by quite a bit though. Tmax 100 is nice for long exposure or landscape.

Learn on Tri-X though, the large exposure latitude will let you fuck up quite a bit and still have a workable image.

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T-Max is a modern tabular grain film (as are Ilford Delta & Fuji Neopan) while Tri-X is an older non tabular grain film. So T-Max will theoretically provide more detail (I think Kodak still claim it as the world's finest grain b&w film) while Tri-X will give you a more 'traditional' look.

Tri-X @ 1600 is indeed love (picrelated) & supposedly it's more forgiving to bad development than T-Max, which is why I started with it.

Don't rely on us to make the choice for you though - buy a few different rolls & decide for yourself which you like the most & fits your process best.

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>Don't rely on us to make the choice for you though
That's strange coming from someone so eager to make literal life-and-death choices for people.
Maybe you learned something after all.