Ilford HP5+ at ISO 3200
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:24 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Hello all,
last weekend I had a bit of fun testing Ilford HP5+ at ISO 3200. I developed the sheets in Kodak HC-100 dilution A for 9.5 minutes and 20 C, as per technical sheet recommendation. I have to say I'm very impressed with the results and was expecting to obtain very grainy negatives. There's nothing wrong with that, because I do like the look of grain on certain type of shots. However, even pushing the process that far, the graininess was very low, almost not noticeable unless I was looking at the scan at high magnification.
Did anyone else every tried to push HP5+ to that ISO value, or possibly even higher? What do you think of it?
Cheers,
Valerio
last weekend I had a bit of fun testing Ilford HP5+ at ISO 3200. I developed the sheets in Kodak HC-100 dilution A for 9.5 minutes and 20 C, as per technical sheet recommendation. I have to say I'm very impressed with the results and was expecting to obtain very grainy negatives. There's nothing wrong with that, because I do like the look of grain on certain type of shots. However, even pushing the process that far, the graininess was very low, almost not noticeable unless I was looking at the scan at high magnification.
Did anyone else every tried to push HP5+ to that ISO value, or possibly even higher? What do you think of it?
Cheers,
Valerio