 Ilford Delta 100. Today we're shooting it at 50. Come along. My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later, it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best black and white photographer I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures. In hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Bright in the Edge. Delta 100 and ISO 50. It's the first time I've ever shot Delta 100 at 50. So I'm hoping to find out if there's a lot of difference with that approach. Exposed up to 100. So I probably shot it ISO 50 before, but I've never developed for it. So I'm curious to see if I shoot it at 50 and develop for 50, if there's going to be a lot of difference. Difference in the grain structure, sharpness, contrast. Those are all things I've been looking at. I go back and forth between Delta 100 and T-Max 100. And I'd like to kind of settle on one of the films. After a year, I still haven't decided which one I like better. With Kodak increasing its prices though, there's a little incentive to possibly use Delta 100. It seems to be more affordable right now. I don't have deep pockets, so wherever I can save a few bucks, I'm going to explore that. But my gut feeling has always been that T-Max just has a little bit finer grain. So I'm going to be looking a lot at the grain structure, shot at 50 and develop for 50 to see if there's really an improvement in that regard. When I shoot at 100, the grain isn't terrible. It has a pretty fine grain, but I wouldn't mind it just being a little bit finer. So right now I'm just trying to make a composition on this little waterfall. This is really more a test roll, but I kind of want to shoot something sort of interesting. Another first is I'm going to be using a different developer. I probably shouldn't do both things at the same time. This is the developer I got. I'm out of what I normally use. I have been using D76, or a generic version of it. What I think I'm using is probably going to be similar, but it's a liquid form. It's by Clayton, and it's F76+, so they claim it's a very fine grain developer. So I'm going to be shooting at 50 and developing with F76+, and going by, initially I'm going to go by the development times on the massive development chart. I think that's what it's called. So we'll see if those times are good. So for this shot, I've shot it with a 45mm and a 75mm, just to kind of get a different look. So 45 on the medium format camera is wide angle, and 75mm is normal focal length. It's like a 50mm, around a 50mm on a 35mm equivalent. I've shot this with a polarizer and without a polarizer, but we'll see which one I like the best. Often I end up liking the one without the polarizer, when I'm shooting black and white. I tend to like that little bit of sparkle in the water, it just kind of gives a little more light to the image. Whereas in color, sometimes that's more of a distraction, at least that's how I feel about sometimes. The light's coming out, it's probably not really in my favor today. This is a test roll anyway, so I'm not going to stress out too much about it. You can see my results. I'm very curious to see if shooting at 50mm really makes a big difference. Who knows, this may be my go-to film in the future. I'm going to end today's video right here. So until next time, thanks for coming on for the ride. Before I end this video, I just wanted to hop on here and give my impressions and final thoughts on shooting Delta 150 and how I felt that the F76 Plus worked. What I'm seeing on these negatives is, it could be in my imagination, it could just be in my head, but it definitely looks like, to me, the grain is definitely a tighter, smoother structure, smoother appearance. And the negatives really look good, there's plenty of information. There are detail in the highlights, detail in the shadows. All these images scanned well, had no problems with that. I like what I'm seeing in this first roll. I like it enough that I'm going to want to shoot some more and try it out on some other subjects. After one roll, my gut feeling is that this film may work better for me at 50mm. I just really do like what I'm seeing in these test shots. This could be my go-to film in the future. I still have a few rolls of T-Max 100 left. I think once I get through those, I would probably, if it keeps going like this, I would probably just stick with the Elfer Delta 100 and just shoot it at 50mm.