Rendering profile
- Sharpness
- high
Film stock wiki
Ilford Delta 400
Ilford Delta 400 Professional is a high-speed tabular-grain black-and-white film rated ISO 400, offering fine grain for its speed class and wide push-processing latitude up to EI 3200. A versatile all-purpose professional emulsion for documentary, street, and reportage photography.
Key specs
- Brand
- Ilford
- Model
- Delta 400
- ISO
- 400
- Process
- BW
- Formats
- 135, 120
- Production status
- In production
- Introduced
- 1990
Grain
fine for ISO 400 — tabular grain
Contrast
medium
Saturation
Unknown
Latitude
Unknown
Technical details
Handling notes
- Storage
- cool (10–20°C), dry, original packaging
Profile notes
Ilford Delta 400 Professional is the workhorse of HARMAN Technology's Delta series. Like Delta 100, it employs a tabular-grain (T-grain) emulsion structure, which allows it to achieve finer grain than conventional cubic-grain films at ISO 400. Rated ISO 400/27°, it handles a broad range of lighting conditions from bright outdoors to indoor ambient light, and can be pushed to EI 800, 1600, or 3200 with increasing grain but retained shadow detail. Pull processing to EI 200 yields very fine grain. Delta 400 was originally developed to compete with Kodak T-Max 400. It processes in all standard B&W developers. Available in 35mm (36 exp) and 120 formats.
Aliases
Delta 400Delta 400 ProfessionalILFORD Delta 400
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