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Old 17th September 2015, 10:20 PM
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what actually happens when you use a developer which isn't capable of giving EI 3200 is that you should have been using an EI of between 100 and 1600. The result is that you underexpose by upto a stop and a half. Then if the subject was low contrast you get very thin negs with no shadow detail.

If you are going to continue using Ilfosol 3 then I would use an EI of 1000 and try again. You can up that to 1200 or 1600 if you need to but at least you won't lose all your shadow detail if 1000 isn't fast enough.

But I guess you bought D3200 because you want the speed it offers so once again, if you want its fullest speed then use Microphen stock, 9mins @ 20degC.
That will give you a perfectly normal film curve. 4 stops to black below metered and 4 stops to white above metered. If you are using in camera averaging meter it will just work fine.
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