Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A bunch of New England Lug's met today at the Arthur Griffin Center to see one another and drool at each other's equiptment. I learned a couple of things: 1) I'll get a Tom A Rapidwinder..... 2) Everyone has a different opinion of lenses (majority feel the Tele-Elmarit M has gotten a bad rap, one feels it's a dog) 3) It was fun to meet LUGnut's face to face! Some comments came up around high speed film- "I don't understand people who shoot 3200 speed film at 1600..." "So what if you get grain, it's the 'feeling' the grain gives that matters..." and like that; So I put it to discussion- if you're gonna shoot with 3200, why would you shoot it at less than 3200? Why not just shoot HP5+ at 1200??? Today over lunch I was shooting Ilford Delta 3200 at 3200 with my M4-P..... I can hardly wait to taste the grain!!!! I'll let you folks know. I'll go develop it now! Bob Keene now an 'official' LUG > >Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 08:00:10 +0100 >From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@euronet.be> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Ilford Delta 3200 > >Byron, > >After some experimentation, reading Erwin's test report and discussion with >Bob Bedwell, I have arrived at XTOL (undiluted) as the ideal developer for >D3200. I expose the film at 1200 and develop for 7 minutes at 20C/68F. Bob >prefers a shorter developing time of 6.5 minutes at this EI. I have never >used D76 but I believe that it is similar to XTOL in terms of developing >action; if so, then you can use the XTOL times as a starting point. > >Nathan > >Byron Rakitzis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if anyone on the list could share their experience >> with processing Ilford Delta 3200. I picked up a couple of rolls this >> afternoon, and I have bottles of HC110, D-76, Rodinal and Tmax in my >> cupboard which I'm willing to experiment with. I would like to avoid >> pronounced grain -- suppose I expose it at EI1600, is there any developer >> from the above list that I can happily use? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Byron.