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Ilford Film Looks

British black and white: flatter, longer-scaled and easier to print than the American equivalents.

Ilford has made monochrome film in Cheshire since the nineteenth century and still does. Its emulsions run flatter than Kodak's with more open shadows and a gentler highlight shoulder — a negative you build a print from rather than one you tame. HP5 Plus is the workhorse, FP4 Plus the classic-grain medium speed, and the Delta line the modern tabular-grain answer to T-Max.

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Ilford Delta 100

Ilford's fine-grain tabular film — crisp, clean and slightly contrastier than T-Max 100.

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Ilford Delta 3200

The classic fast black and white film — enormous grain, unmistakable atmosphere.

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Ilford Delta 400

Tabular-grain 400 from Ilford: cleaner than HP5, warmer than T-Max.

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Ilford FP4 Plus 125

A classic-grain medium-speed film with long, gentle tonality.

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Ilford HP5 Plus 400

Tri-X's British counterpart — flatter, softer and easier to print.

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Ilford HPS 800

A discontinued fast Ilford emulsion sitting between HP5 and Delta 3200.

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Ilford Pan F Plus 50

Ilford's slowest film: near-grainless, high contrast, demanding.

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Ilford XP2

Black and white film developed in colour C-41 chemistry — unusually smooth and flat.

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