mamiya 6 and 1600 film?

[Chrissi]

Hi all,

i own a mamiya 6 for nearly one year now and ... i love it. But my problem is, that i really love high grain pics and the mamiya 6 only takes film up to 1600 asa (I know, pulling Ilford 3200, pushing 400 film ...) But is there a 1600 B/W film for medium format available? I could not find one so far.

chris

 

[sleepyhead]

Not to my knowledge - as you say, I push tri-x to 1600 in the rare instances that I want to go that fast in medium format.

 

[Gordon Coale]

My understanding is the Ilford Delta 3200 is a 1600 film that you have to push to 3200.

 

[Debusti Paolo]

I agree with Gordon.When my 4 years old son was born I used a delta 3200 in my bronica rf645 ated @3200 and I've got great results (the difference from 1600 to 3200 is only 1 stop!).😀 I used the manual exposure compensator!!!😛

 

[hans voralberg]

I think Fuji has a 1600 film

 

[Chrissi]

Thanks guys.

Fuji has one but as i know only for 35mm ...
The Ilford 3200: So i have to put in one of those, put my camera on 1600 and underexpose by one stop and let it be developed as a (1600 or 3200?). And you think there is no weak kontrast or so?

Chris

 

[nksyoon]

Some pictures on the Mamiya 6 with 75mm lens on Delta 3200 shot at 1600 and developed as 3200 - Rene Burri at the closing of his exhibition in Zurich. These were scans from negatives, so grain may be more apparent than from prints.

Compared with Neopan 400:

 

[waileong]

there's no real 3200 film anyway, so why the fuss?

 

[Roger Vadim]

try 35mm film? grain for free😉

 

[nightfly]

Push Tri-X. I've done this with a Mamiya 6 and gotten brilliant results. I don't care for any of the Delta films and much prefer pushed Tri-X. I believe I used HC-110 and a sort of stand development like this:

triX400 to 1600 with HC110. 1+100 29 Degress C for 14 mins with NO agitation to bring out the shadow details via compensating effect. Agitate only for the first 10 secs and that's all you do.

However, this isn't very grainy. It's hard to get grain in medium format.