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Subject: Re: [Leica] Info about Ilford Delta 3200
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:35:53 +0100
References: <000401c04ce7$504db480$b2c4a7d5@aspire>

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"

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