Last week-end I used an Ilford Delta 3200 Pro 120 B&W film with the 2,8F
Planar. I had a problem loading it into the tank due to a light leak
through the dark bag handling, a light band affected the film center along
the roll except for two frames; the film sensitivity is almost incredible
and I will be more careful for the next time; anyway I did not lose too
much, results are useful to test exposure and film developing.
Ilford Delta 3200 is an ISO 800 film forced to 3200 during film developing,
I think it'svery interesting for extreme low lighting situations or if you
want DOF under poor light and/or if you want or you need to avoid tripod
use. ISO 50,,100, and 400 panchromatic films are better options for regular
lighting situations of course. I took a portrait by night with only two
candles illuminating the subject face, the candles very close to the face,
a few centimeters of distance variation mean a significant change for the
exposure; it was 1/60 sec at f 2,8 and results were right, owevert the
portraits with candles look better with color film because B&W does not
capture the candles light warmth and lighting looks too gloomy, dismal,
and cold, but it's amazing you take a portrait with film camera hand-held
under so poor light. I don't like this portrait for my Flickr gallery, but
I'll put it in one of my blogs as a technical issue in the future.
This photograph was taken last Sunday during a time when the intense rain
decreased its intensity; the natural light was very poor, but I could take
it camera hand´held with wide DOF thanks to the 3200 film, I used the Romek
PQ7 at 20ºC during 20' for the film developing:
https://flic.kr/p/2bHTT9g
Carlos
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