July 5th, 2006

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Film Testing Will Be Ilford Delta 100

And I have to come up with a developer pretty fast. As I tend to mach my developer to the way the image is exposed to create the effect on how the image is seen.

Wind vibration is always a problem as my exposures are quite long because of a high number f stop used. A weaker longer development helps bring out all of the little tones in the image with out blocking the highlights.

And even then the highlights can still be overly dense, lacking any detail. Sky to land. Snow to land. Ice to Sky. Or the greys are just grey with no ump.

I’m wondering what results will come from these two developers with Delta 100 film.

Wimberley’s WD2D
DI#13 t-Max 100 Extreme N-Developer

Both developers are over a year old. Stored in packaging and plastic bags. “Ouch”.

Try to always store your darkroom film developing chemicals in glass. Plastic bags I find breath well. This means air and chemicals will pass through the bag over the days and months deteriorating the strength (power) of the chemicals when used.

Cheers

Jimmy MacDonald

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