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Sheet Film
Perhaps you may try T-Max 400 in 5/4 sheet then Dave, or can we use our influence to get Ilford to produce a short run of Delta 400 in 5/4 sheet with the ULF run order?
Huges. |
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Influence with Ilford, me? I'll stick with the Tmax, lovely film.
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I've moved Hughes' post to a new thread to avoid confusing the thread in which it was posted.
I think he raises an interesting point for it has always puzzled me why Harman don't cut Delta400 to suit the larger formats but only off Delta in ISO100 in 5x4 and 10x8. It's a question I raised with them some years ago, which remains unanswered. Does anyone know the reason? For myself I'm very pleased with the Tmax400 I have been trying in 120 format and plan to try it in 5x4 later this year. First I need to see how it reacts to pyro developers. |
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I quite agree, but then I already said that. Quote:
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Film Types 54
Hi Dave,
I seem to remember reading on our site, that Ilford threw away the last part of production of 54 delta 400, but I suspect that was a long time ago. Film is once again a growing market. From analising my own projects I have now formed an impression of the suitability for a given film to subject matter; eg Tx Street/ journalistic and atmosperic castles, T-grain films New archetecture a modern look, Pan-F Waterfalls and son-on; FP4 great but sometimes a bit slow. EG push for Y8filter, white archetechure, dev return, bellows and there's 2 1/2 stops gone. Not much good for breaking waves on the rocks! with the dev control from sheet film. I have yet to try T-max 54 but I would bet on it having a different character to 400 Delta. I still think its worth a mail to wake up Ilford. Thanks for your interest. Hughes Hampshire |
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I guess it also depends on the degree of enlargement anticipated, since I rarly go beyond 12"x16" then the grain from a 400iso film is all but invisible so I would rather have the extra couple of stops available at the shooting stage; hence my preference for 400iso film.
By all means contact Harman and ask, it's not much point me doing so since they don't reply to my emails; it may have been something I said, although I can't imagine what. |
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Why not use HP5 it's easy to use and I get super negs developed in Pyrocat.
J.
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Another vote here for HP5. Delta 400 is slightly sharper, and has a touch less grain but it would probably take a 40" x 50" enlargement to show up these differences.
Alan |
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Because I no longer buy Harman products.
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