Delta 100 (times & temps, developers)

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Could someone provide me with times and developers of choice for Delta 100 either 120 or 35mm formats. My preference is for a 1 shot developer. I'm not a fan of Xtol. Does anyone have experience of Delta 100 in Agfa Refinal. Any ifo will be helpful ... and yes I will do a series of personal tests but the starting points given are invaluable. What characteristics have you discovered. Does the film have good highlight and / or shadow control. Thanks in advance Steve.

-- Steve Nicholls (gl1500@chariot.net.au), June 25, 2000

Answers

Response to Delta 100

Check

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~migol/photo/devframe.html

It's called the Massive development chart and has times for just about every possible combination of film and developer out there.

-- Peter Foiles (lightcatcher54@hotmail.com), June 25, 2000.


Response to Delta 100

I use Delta 100 extensively. When I started using it 7 or 8 years ago, it couldn't get above EI:50. I tested it again a few months ago using a color densitometer and developeed it in PMK. Amazing! It now has an actual EI of 100. My choice of developer, for all nearly all films, is PMK. This is a one-shot developer. The time for NORMAL contrast/zone negatives is 14 minutes @68F. These negatives will 'normal' prints on grade 2 or on Ilford MG with a Zone VI VC head with both dials set the same. You will have to go to a little more trouble with PMK (available from Photographers' Formulary) but you will certainly be rewarded for your effort. See the excellent article 'Pyro for the Small Format' by Gordon Hutchings in the Winter '97 issue of 'Camera Arts' magazine, p. 50. Back issues and/or reprints are available from their web site.

-- Michael D Fraser (mdfraser@earthlink.net), June 25, 2000.

Response to Delta 100

Delta 100 works fine in plain old D-76 1:1 or 1:3, EI 100.

Try:

1:1 12'/68F 8'45"/75F

1:3 18'20"/68F 13'15"/75F

No idea on Refinal; that isn't available here in the US.

-- John Hicks (jbh@magicnet.net), June 25, 2000.


Response to Delta 100

I suggest you get Ilford's Fact Sheet on the Delta Films. (See http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/bw.html.) I use Delta 100 for about half of my work. Most of the other half is made up by Delta 400 (the rest is Delta 3200 [seldom] and quite a few Kodak b&w Infra Red films). For all the Deltas, I found Ilfotec HC to be a fine developer.

For the Delta 100, it's the 1+31 dilution for 6 minutes at 20 0C (or 68 F), four inversions at the beginning of each minute that gives me good results. Ilfotec HC is a one-shot developer with a fabulous shelf life. It comes as a thick syrup-like liquid which, however, can be conveniently and accurately dosed using a syringe. If you don't like the syrup, try Ilford's LC 29, which is said to be an amateur version of Ilfotec HC, and comes in smaller quantities.

-- Thomas Wollstein (thomas_wollstein@web.de), June 26, 2000.


Response to Delta 100

I have been fooling around with this film for some time now and worked mainly with Ilumitol (PMK formula) and results are good but I cant manage to get deacent 30x40 prints (cm) from 35mm negs but getting closer, It certenly can be because my clumzyness, I must admit that Im not a big control freak ;)

Anyway I have in the washer, 2 rolls of delta 100 developed with Tetenal Negafin, at first look they do seem great, but untill I get It on a 30x40 paper I wont be sure, (I went by sugested times)

Hope it gives you a few ideas.

Diego

-- Diego K. (Heuristica@yahoo.com), August 21, 2000.



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