Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> My understanding is that this film (and others like it) is HP5 (not HP5+) > which is split into 35mm widths and packaged. I understand that Ilford has > licensed HP5 to a number of manufacturers (Jessops is made in Spain for > example). I think if you compare the given processing times for various dev > combinations you will see that they are not in line with HP5+. > > Gerry This is correct. It's HP-5 that everybody is licensing; Ilford sold it briefly as a cheap "student" film. Only Ilford sells HP-5 Plus, which is a wholly new and different emulsion. It should have been called HP-6, except that every photographic manufacturer seems to have gotten number paralysis by about 1992. Even the R8 should have been called the Leicaflex SL3! - --Mike