[LargeFormat] Expanding and Contracting Ilford FP4+
Ole Tjugen
largeformat@f32.net
Fri Apr 11 01:20:09 2003
When I was still working semi-professionally, I used Ilfosol-S at 1+14 on MF
film. I gave my studio shots a slight expansion by increasing the temperature
to 24=B0C with the recommended time for 20=B0C. This came to be a habit, so much
so that I discovered the film would survive the same treatment on long-range
landscapes.
For contraction I discovered (last summer) that split D23 gives very good
results without losing shadow detail or definition. This was on 5x7" film,
which brings it back to f32 range...
Ole