Delta 400 EI 100

[Teus]

When we were drinking some beers, and already had quite a few, I was mistaken when I was grabbing a fresh roll of Delta 100 in my bag. Now I exposed a full roll at EI100 in bright daylight (f/11).

thank god it's not TMAX film, thats so sensitive to overexposure, but I'm still worried about this. Can somebody give me some pointers on developing the film, and what the photos would look like?

I have XTOL, TMAX, Rodinal and HC-110 available.

 

[titrisol]

I think you can find some advice inthe MDC
HC 110 or Rodinal are IMHO your best alternatives,

Data from MDC:
Delta 400 Pro HC-110 B 200 5 5 20C
Delta 400 Pro HC-110 B 400 7.5 7.5 20C
Delta 400 Pro HC-110 B 800 10 10 20C
Delta 400 Pro HC-110 B 1600 13.5 13.5 20C
Since you have to get 1 more exposure of pull should be in the 3.5 min range.
I would dilute HC110 from B to H (1+19) since from B to H time should be double so I'd give it ~7 min (look into the http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/ site for dilutions and other great advice)

Delta 400 Pro Rodinal 1+25 200 6.5 6.5 20C
Delta 400 Pro Rodinal 1+50 200 11 11 20C
Delta 400 Pro Rodinal 1+24 250 7.5 20C
With Rodinal 1+50 about 8 minutes seem to be enough as well
However Rodnial and D400 tend to produce excessive grain so if grain is not your thing beware

Anyway, there is a big chance you'll get negs that are quirky
Take your time, do the math yourself and EXPERIMENT!

 

[Teus]

interesting, thank you.

Delta 400 dislikes Rodinal, I forgot. HC-110 has an upswept curve with mostly highlight detail and less shadow detail, so it would do fine. pulling 2 stops would give you way too much shadow detail with XTOL/TMAX indeed, and flat contrast.

 

[MartinP]

Before you dev the film, think of how you metered it . . . maybe those shadows were more important than your in-camera meter thought so devving for the time shown for 200 might be ok ? Depends on the subject contrast too of course.

 

[Teus]

subject contrast is high - 1/125 f/11 ISO 100. I'm using a handheld Sekonic meter, incident reading. It reads quite accurately, and exposure-wise the photos don't need a lot of adjustment.

 

[MartinP]

Sensible metering ! not as common as one would hope. The exposure value doesn't say anything directly about the contrast range (there may even be no shadows at all of course) but the diluted HC110 looks best. You could keep the same time and change the dilution even. There was a link somewhere (which inevtiably I can't find at the moment) about a page specialising in HC110 information. A bit of googling might find that.

Good luck 🙂