Show me the best image quality you have got from Delta 3200

The thing about high ISO films is that they look great when there is a lot of light. I mean if you are shooting your ISO 3200 film at 1/1000sec and f/16 all the world is a happy place. It is when you are shooting your ISO 3200 film at 1/15th sec and f/1.4 that it comes up short. Film sensitivity is just no substitute for light. Of course, you got to do what you got to do.

Delta 3200 is an amazing film. You can do whatever you want to flex it. The best thing is it doesn't built up contrast like TMZ.
These 3 pictures are 16x20in silver gelatin prints. hand held pinhole. The grain seen is the grain of the paper, not the neg, as they are Lith prints.
As for the neg, I processed them in Rodinal at 1+25 for a long long time. Don't remember as it was 10+ years ago.
You can't go wrong with Delta 3200

Guillaume Zuili said:

Delta 3200 is an amazing film. You can do whatever you want to flex it. The best thing is it doesn't built up contrast like TMZ.
These 3 pictures are 16x20in silver gelatin prints. hand held pinhole. The grain seen is the grain of the paper, not the neg, as they are Lith prints.
As for the neg, I processed them in Rodinal at 1+25 for a long long time. Don't remember as it was 10+ years ago.
You can't go wrong with Delta 3200

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DUUUUUDEE!

I do find D3200 can do pretty much anything you want it to. Though generally I am not a fan of high shutter speeds and small apertures in sunlight, I did recently use some Kodak P3200 TMZ to photograph jousting, because I wanted to freeze the action. Normally though I'd be using ISO 400 in those cloudy but not dim conditions. And D3200 can be pulled to 400 nicely. Or pushed as far as 12,800.

I think 3200ISO, f2.8 or f3.5 and 1/10 to 1/15s can do lovely things in the dark. These films excel at available light photography. Maybe it's partly down to having big, steady hands. Hand holding at 1/10 second holds no fear for me - see the pic of the woman with the guitar. The lighting was so low I couldn't even see the backing paper through the red window to wind on.

faberryman said:

The thing about high ISO films is that they look great when there is a lot of light. I mean if you are shooting your ISO 3200 film at 1/1000sec and f/16 all the world is a happy place. It is when you are shooting your ISO 3200 film at 1/15th sec and f/1.4 that it comes up short. Film sensitivity is just no substitute for light. Of course, you got to do what you got to do.

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Not sure what you mean. Delta 3200, even when exposed at 800-1000EI in my Rolleicord Va with a Xenar lens, allows me to get sharp pictures at f/11 (which is the sweet spot of this Tessar-like lens IME), handheld, in the mostly miserable northern European Winter daylight. Coincidentally, I love the 'soft glow' it seems to produce used like this.

Standard lower ISO film stocks I use would limit me to shooting wide open or f/4-f/5.6 for acceptable shutter speeds handheld. I don't personally like how the Xenar looks wide open, so Delta 3200 fills an important niche for me. Great film.

Brooks Plaubel Veriwide 100, Delta 3200. Ready for client pick up.

Nikon F3 Ltd, Zeiss 50 1.4, Delta 3200, Cinestill Monobath DF96