Pushing Ilford Delta 3200 : Microphen or HC110?

[Anthony Cronin]

I have been happily pushing 120 format Ilford Delta 3200 in Microphen to 12,500 for a wee while. It enables me go street shooting at night with my Autocord TLR without a flash ... then I talked to someone who planted the seeds of doubt and told me Kodak HC110 is far better for this and give better results (subjective, I know) . I have done the usual scan of websites and can't find much on this.

Any thoughts or experience before I go buy a bottle

some examples with microphen

 

[Colin Corneau]

There's really nothing to say. You have to try it for yourself - with your methods and your processes - to really know if it works for you. You do seem to be getting good results with what you have now!

 

[ajuk]

Pushing with Microphen must be expensive, isn't it a one shot when you use it to push?

 

[Anthony Cronin]

Ajuk, no I use it like recommended ... adding % to dev time to compensate as outlined by Ilford ....

 

[Anscojohn]

Ajuk, no I use it like recommended ... adding % to dev time to compensate as outlined by Ilford ....

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Bill Pierce recommended pushing by using HC110 Replenisher instead of HC110.

 

[eddym]

I have used Microphen, but my preference is DD-X.

 

[JohnArs]

I recomand XTOL!