Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Giorgio, The 3200 indicated on the Delta 3200 and Kodak's P3200 films is pure marketing hype. The real speed of these films is somewhere in the 1000-1600 neighbourhood. A good starting point for your experimentation with both XTOL and DD-X is to shoot the film at 1600 or 1200 and develop using the indicated times for 3200. Nathan Giorgio Ferrari wrote: > Gentlemen, > I've a question for you. Recently I've had the opportunity to use the Ilford > Delta 3200 film. I've tried it for normal exposure index (3200 ISO) and I've > developed it both in Ilford DD-X and Kodak Xtol. > The results are bad: the films appears like underexposed, with black areas > (high lights) with low density and white areas (low lights) with low > transparency. > Are the developing times, reported onto the developers charts, wrong? (I can > exclude developing errors or fixing errors). > Have you experience with this film? Can you help me? > > Thanks, > Giorgio Ferrari > "fergio@galactica.it" - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/