NEW ILFORD Products

The Ilford Ortho film has been around for decades but never in 210 or 35mm sizes before only as sheet film. I used it a lot in the 1970's & 80's mostly for copy negatives as we did a lot of composite work, sort of thing you do with Photoshop & equivalents these days. It started life as ilford Ortho going through some "SO" special order number names in the 80's before evolving into Ilford Ortho Plus.

It's a very nice film excellent for making higher contrast negatives for alternative processes and is very close to being an Orthochromatic version of FP4, grain sharpness and development times are very similar. Because it has low Red sensitivity it's speed drops by half in Tungsten light - 80 ISO drops to 40 ISO Tungsten, in comparison FP4 is 125 ISO Daylight, 80 ISO Tungsten.

While Ilford state you can use a 906 Dark Ruby Red safe light the film is fast and quite easily fogged so best treated like a Panchromatic film. Few people will have the correct safe light filter these days anyway.

Ian
 
Ilford can't count :D this is the Ninth generation of Multigrade, although technically the Fifth generartion of Resin Coated Multigrade.

I always found that Kentmere's Kenthene had a much higher Dmax than any of the Ilford RC papers whether that was original graded Ilfospeed or the various MG RC offerings, so this is an improvement and brings the RC Multigrade in line with the newer Fibre based Multigrade Classic.

Ian
 
It's pleasant to see a smiling face in an LF blog. Too many earnest men with beards!
 
David M said:
It's pleasant to see a smiling face in an LF blog. Too many earnest men with beards!
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And there might also be 'old bearded men' (like me) with long hair that is usually put up in a 'pony tail' after I've had my morning 'shower' (I have not 'sat' or 'languished' in a tub for 50+years..

Ken
 
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