Times for Fotospeed FD10 with Ilford Films

[kylebennett]

Anyone good any good reccomendations for times to use with Fotospeed FD10 film

developer and various Ilford films? (I use HP5, FP4, Pan F and Delta 3200)

 

I know about the Massive Dev Chart etc, was just wondering if anyone had some

real life reccomended times? I don't really have the time or money to

experiment as I'm a student and only have limited darkroom time alongside my

other subjects

 

HP5 we use mainly at school and 9 minutes @ 1:9 solution seems to work brilliantly

I tried some Delta 3200 with 12 minutes @ 1:9, which was half way between the

Fotospeed reccomended times (11 or 13 minutes low/high contrast) but it still

came out rediculously low contrast.

 

I'm about to try some PanF film and was wondering if anyone had some personally

reccomended times in general for all these films?

 

Thanks,

 

Kyle

[rothelle]

You are better off using the times inside the box or Massive Dev Chart then trying to use others times. As you stated you don't have time and money to experiment. I found that's all you'll be doing is spending money and waisting time if you don't experiment yourself to find the ISO and development times for your style of shooting. It's not a lot of money and not to much time.