tom_mccabe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 I'm looking for the best development and fixing time for T-Max 100. Developing with Ilford ID-11 and fixing with Ilford fixer. I'm also trying to find Ilford Delta Pro 400, 4x5 sheets but all forms of it seem to have disappeared. Even Ilford's website doesn't list it. Thanks for any info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJG Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 I can't help you with T-Max 100, but I don't think that Delta 400 ever existed in 4x5. When I tried it in 35 mm 15 years ago I contacted Ilford and they said that they weren't planning on selling it in 4x5. I wish that they had--I liked it in small formats, and it would have been great in 4x5. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_mccabe Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 Thanks, guys. I'll go with HP5. My old eyes can't focus too well on ISO 100 film..... I'll try with 400 and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 (edited) I didn't check for your specifics, but I'm pretty sure that most of what still persists is to be found at places like Freestyle (LINK Home | Freestyle Photo & Imaging). It (film) WAS fun in its way, wasn't it? A few people here are actually going back to wet plate (this is not a joke). For fun here is Edited June 17, 2022 by JDMvW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_mccabe Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 I didn't check for your specifics, but I'm pretty sure that most of what still persists is to be found at places like Freestyle (LINK Home | Freestyle Photo & Imaging). It (film) WAS fun in its way, wasn't it? A few people here are actually going back to wet plate (this is not a joke). For fun here is It WAS fun! Still is. That's why I went back in there after a number of years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Film is, at least, enough fun that I don't price the time I spend in the darkroom. I still have my color film done in a lab, as there is one nearby and the chemistry isn't cheap. Though I still have some rolls to do, as it has been a while, and maybe if the lab did them for $1/roll, but otherwise I only consider the chemical cost. (I just have to get around to it.) In my earliest darkroom work I did 120 film, but after not so long only 35mm. Then maybe 10 years ago paper-backed roll film, and remembered the smell of unrolling Kodak backing paper. (I think others are different.) Though some of my film is 50 years old, so from about the same time. In any case, it reminded me so much of those years, so long ago. -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_mockford Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I always use the Massive Dev app on my cellphone when I process a film. According to the app T-Max 100 in !D-11 is 3mins 30 at 1+3 concentration. Stop for 1 min and fix for 5 mins but that's pretty standard for most films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machts gut Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I always use the Massive Dev app on my cellphone when I process a film. According to the app T-Max 100 in !D-11 is 3mins 30 at 1+3 concentration. Stop for 1 min and fix for 5 mins but that's pretty standard for most films. It should be 13mins not 3 (and at 22 Degr. Celcius!). Just a typo I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 glen_h said Then maybe 10 years ago paper-backed roll film, and remembered the smell of unrolling Kodak backing paper. (I think others are different.) Though some of my film is 50 years old, so from about the same time. In any case, it reminded me so much of those years, so long ago. Yes, I remember that smell. Amazing how encountering the same smell (or similar) can stir a memory. This true of a lot of things (like the distinctive odor that early to mid sixties transistor radios had inside the cabinet). Some things haven't changed much in odor such as fixer. To the original post, there might be some other ISO 400 films available in 4x5, although it might be difficult to find the same combination of tone, grain, and sharpness that Delta 400 offers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 I love the smell of fixer in the evening. ... It smells like, like... photography Kilgore von Weinberg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_autio Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 I'm looking for the best development and fixing time for T-Max 100. Developing with Ilford ID-11 and fixing with Ilford fixer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_autio Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 My experience with ID 11 and Ilford films is that it provides a better separation of values in your shot. Another way to say this is that it is less contrasty than kodak 110 developer. Bare in mind Ilford developers have a shorter shelf life, and the smart way to handle your prized film is make new batch each time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 The smells, the headaches, the itchy hands, the cleaning up. Ah! To be back in the darkroom! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 The darkroom smells I deal with today aren't bad. I think fixer (I use Ilford fixer) is the only one that really has a noticeable odor, I use HC110 for developing film. Two smells I didn't care for: prints fresh out of an Ektamatic processor and sepia toning chemicals (the bleach). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_angel Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I love the smell of fixer in the evening. ... It smells like, like... photography ... And Wagner on the speakers, I guess... I prefer soft jazz, actually :p 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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