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Delta 3200 has long been regarded as an ISO 800 film that does well when pushed to 3200. You’ll be fine shooting it at 400 and, if properly developed, should yield some fine grain.
Head over to the Massive Dev Chart and find the times for your preferred developer + ISO combo.
You could just get the meter reading then close down the aperture by around 3 stops.
It would be a great film to use if you want to really lean into graininess or play with exposure times. Sebastiao Segado-vibe grain unlocked if you play with push or pull processing too.
Salgado uses tri-x 400 rated at ei 200 for extended tonal range and shadow detail.
Thanks, I'll hold onto it and give it a try once I know what I'm doing a bit better.
You can pull the film to ISO 400. Make sure you can find times for your developer.
With black and white, I'm actually interested in doing the development myself. So once I'm comfortable doing it by the numbers I'll probably give that a shot. Thanks.
You could experiment with astrophotography, maybe try and catch some star trails with it.
That's something I hadn't considered. I'll look into it. My naive expectation is that I would need better optics.
Beware long exposure times. Rated ISO will drop (sometimes drastically) for exposures longer than 1 s.