Film Format: 120/220 Film Colour & Type: Black & White ISO: 3200 Grain: High Contrast: High Colour Balance: Exposure Latitude: Wide / Very Wide Latitude DX Coding: No Film Development Process: Black and White Perfect for: 🌥️ Low Light/Night, 🚦 Street Photography, and ⚙️ Great All-Rounder
Description
Ilford Delta 3200 is the definitive high-speed medium format film to take with you to concerts, underground parties, and other night-time excursions. Delta is a modern emulsion from Ilford - created with finer grain to provide sharp black and white images with excellent contrast even in low light.
Ilford Delta 3200 120 film is a powerhouse for low-light and high-speed black-and-white photography. With an impressive ISO 3200, this film excels in challenging lighting conditions, capturing sharp, detailed images even in near-darkness. Known for its dramatic contrast and expressive grain, Ilford Delta 3200 creates moody, atmospheric shots perfect for night scenes, concerts, or any low-light situation.
The film's unique emulsion offers rich tonal range and exceptional depth, adding a sense of intensity to every frame. For photographers pushing the boundaries of light, Ilford Delta 3200 120 film is an unmatched choice.
Ilford was founded in 1879 in the English town of the same name. They are B&W royalty in the photography industry thanks to their 140-year heritage and their support for photographers with chemicals and development as well as film. In the mid-20th Century they produced several well-regarded camera lines (including one given to Princess Elizabeth that was later stolen!) but today they are focused on producing the best films and development processes that they can.
For more information about the brand check out our bio of Ilford
When you buy your camera film from us we can ship it across the UK, Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia and Canada (more countries planned soon!) So buy your Ilford Delta Film 120 B&W ISO 3200 today and dive back into the fun of 120 film photography!
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Perfect for:Landscapes, Street Photography, Pinhole/Long-Exposure, Creative/Abstract, Low light/Night
Pushing the user to the limits, but delivering the goods
As someone recently returned to medium format film photography, I needed and wanted to experiment in the same way in which I did, 50 years ago.
I bought the roll of Ilford Delta 3200 in a batch of different films with no specific tasks in mind. On a cold winter hazy sunny morning I loaded the film knowing I’d push the camera to its physical limits of 1/500 at f/22. I thought it’d be over exposure but I wanted hand-held because a tripod was out of the question. Almost snapshot mode. I knew I’d probably get grain. I knew I’d get contrast. But I knew what I’d be photographing and I wanted moody atmosphere. And I dreaded the possible outcome of having pushed beyond the limits and having to bin the results. I think 9 usable shots out of 15 isn’t a bad score with 3 more shots in which it was the composition which failed rather than the exposure. OK I spent a couple of hours using Lightroom to achieve the best possible “look” but I would have spent more hours in the darkroom and wasted more physical resources.
Is the film designed for use in sunlight? Probably not. Did it “deliver”? Most certainly. Did I achieve a satisfactory result? Most definitely, the grain and contrast gave the atmospheric effects for which I strived. There was detail in the sky and the blacks were not blocked out. The contrast was high but not “soot and whitewash”. There was excellent rendition and detail. The grain was not intensive. Will I be buying another roll for other experimentation? Definitely.
I grabbed a roll of this to have a play in low light, but also to see how it performed in general, dull daylight. Run through a Yashica 635, it didn't completely blow me away, but learnt a lot about how this film performs.
In low light you get a nice gritty feel - there's a lot of contrast if there are manmade lighting sources, which would be fun to explore; but I actually think this is a really interesting film to mess about with in daylight, allowing you to use a fast shutter, or smaller aperture.
The grain I was expecting to be massively prominent is more just a 'feel' in the medium format, which makes this a much more useable film than I suspect is the case in 35mm.
I think I'll have another go with this, and I might pull it to 1600, seeing if I can get more balance to the light and dark at night.
But all in all definitely worth having some fun with!
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Philip H. (Stratford-upon-Avon, GB)
Perfect for:Landscapes, Travel, Low light/Night
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Excellent even on a rainy day.
So happy with the exposure on the photos taken on a Holga 120N with this high exposure film on a cloudy day, and even in the pouring rain. The heavy vignetting suggests I could even have tried a smaller aperture setting.
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Chris S. (London, GB)
Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Portraits, Street Photography, Low light/Night
Allows you to use your medium format camera in any light! Beautiful tones. Completely different to the grainy 35mm version. Absolutely superb.
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Ryan (Brecon, GB)
Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Beginners, Portraits, Street Photography, Creative/Abstract, Low light/Night
Beautiful low light grain
First time using this film and what a delight! Very versatile and forgiving. Easy to point and shoot without altering settings much at all. A little flat on depth and detail but gains points in its versitility
