I have recently started getting into film photography and I’m still learning the ropes. After buying a variety of color and black and white films to experiment with, I noticed that I somehow accidentally bought a couple of rolls of very high speed Ilford Delta ISO 3200 film. At this point, all I have is a Kodak Ektar H35N and an Olympus Pen-EES 2 which has a max ISO of 400. Is the Ilford film useless to me, or can it be used at lower speeds in certain conditions?

EDIT: This is tangential, but I was originally going to ask this question on Reddit instead of Lemmy because the conventional wisdom is that Lemmy isn’t useful yet for more niche topics, but I thought “why not try Lemmy first anyway,” and I’m glad I did. I found the most active film photography community on Lemmyverse.net (which hadn’t yet even federated to my small instance) and it paid off. How nice!

  • alleycat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You can pull the film to ISO 400. Make sure you can find times for your developer.

    • Bilb!@lem.monsterOP
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      1 day ago

      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.