[Leica] Ilford Film & Developer

["Martin V. Howard" <marho@ida.liu.se>]

Years ago, when I did my own developing and printing, I used to take
pictures on Tri-X rated at 320 and developed for 9 minutes in D-76
diluted 1:1 at 20 C.  I used to get fine grain, beautifully negs with
a tonal scale longer than John Goodman's waist measurement ;)

I've now got back into photography and, having discovered the second
time around that labs ruin your negs, am about to start developing film
again.  I usually favour the smaller companies, and since Ilford are
dedicated to B&W, I've decided to use their films.  Besides, a number
of really fantastic pictures I've seen recently are taken on Ilford
film.

I also like the idea of the X-Tol developer, without the environmentally
hazardous hydro-whatsits.  I would like to hear if anyone has experience
of Ilford films (such as FP4+, HP5+, Delta 100 & 400) and X-Tol
developer, and what that experience is.

Please include all the relevant information on development, as the
example above.


Thanks,

M.

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Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory,     | 
Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University,    | Just DOHH it!
SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.  Tel +46 13 282 421,     +----------------+
Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho