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Delta 100 film


Rick Helmke

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Evening all,

 

I went down to our local camera store this afternoon to pick up a few things. I'm getting ready for a road trip as I desperately need to get out of town for a few days. I asked for 4 rolls of my normal b&w film, these days HP-5. When I got home I discovered they had put Delta 100 in the bag. This is a film I've never gotten around to using in the past and my question is this: Is Delta 100 processed with the same method as HP-5, Tri-X and so on or is it a C-41 process film? I know I could open up a box and find out but would rather not in case I need to return it. The slower speed is not an issue but I do all my own b&w work and want to be able to print it in an enlarger and not have it machine printed. Is there anything unusual about this film? Thanks.

 

Rick H.

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Rick,

 

Delta 100 is a fairly well behaved T-grained film similar to TMAX 100. It does use standard B&W processing.

 

It's not one of my favorite films, but is probably one of the finest grained B&W films on the market(along with TMX). It will give good results in standard chemistry(D76, HC-110, etc) although when I use T-grain films I tend to use Kodak TMAX developer. I'm not sure if there's an Ilford equivalent.

 

With that said, I have plenty of Tri-X on hand and can drop some in the box when I ship your camera to you tomorrow if you'd like.

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I like Delta 100 a lot, used with a number of different developers, and so far haven't found combinations that don't really work. I love the tonality and smoothness I get out of it with Perceptol, but usually use HC110, which also works perfectly fine. I believe the Ilford recommended developer for their Delta films is DD-X, but I never used that, so no idea if that's the better choice or not.
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I used a bulk roll of it a few years back and used HC110 dilution B exclusively. Liked the results. I'd probably shoot more if the price was lower. Also, shot some in 120. When there was a demand for black & white film photography from paying clients, the Delta 100 120/HC110 combo was what I usually used.
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I'll keep this and take it on the road. It's been some time since I used a new (to me) b&w film so I'll be looking forward to seeing the results I get from it. I'd like to find a very good film to shoot b&w portraits on a 6x7 as well as 35mm. I'm also thinking very seriously about picking up a 4x5 camera and would like a portrait or fine art film for that. Not that there aren't enough film cameras scattered through my house now but just one more can't hurt can it????

 

Rick H.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Haven't used Delta 100 in a long time, and then it was in 120 format.

 

If my experience was anything to go by, it has a tendency to high contrast. Personally I'd expose it at EI 80 and 'pull' the development a bit. Or use a speed enhancing developer like Microphen, slightly cutting the recommended time.

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