Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Delta 400 and 400 Delta New Ilford films
From: henry <henry@henryambrose.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:21:04 -0600

>I just used the new Delta 400 and I am very impressed with the 8x10's. I
>think this new Delta is MUCH finer grained, the tones are better and the
>film seems to have a dreamy quality about it. BTW I am a long time Delta
>user and I like this new Delta.
>
>Steve
>Annapolis
I'm still working on the test. I've scanned the frames that fit into my 
scanners dynamic range. By the time I make the images into small  jpegs 
it hard to tell much difference. Right now the images are 800K and look 
OK but too big to put up.

The scene was very high contrast, direct sun on white, gray and black 
objects.
I say that the new film (Delta 400 Professional) is 1/3 stop faster under 
the conditions I tested. Which, no surprise to me, agrees with what 
Ilford claims.
The grain is much finer, and it might be a bit more contrasty - only a 
tiny bit.
It is quite interesting to me that the frames I picked by eye as 
reasonable exposures were too dense to have any scannable white detail by 
about a stop.

To the darkroom!

Henry