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.

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