Rendering profile
- Sharpness
- medium-high
- Tags
- black and white, documentary, pushable
- Best use cases
- street photography, available light, documentary, darkroom printing
Film stock wiki
Ilford HP5 Plus
Ilford HP5 Plus is a flexible ISO 400 black-and-white film with classic grain and strong push-processing tolerance.
Key specs
- Brand
- Ilford
- Model
- HP5 Plus
- ISO
- 400
- Process
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- Formats
- 135, 120, 4x5
- Production status
- In production
Grain
classic
Contrast
medium
Saturation
monochrome
Latitude
wide
Technical details
- Film base
- acetate
- Push/pull
- Often pushed to 800, 1600, or 3200 with suitable development.
Handling notes
- Exposure
- Forgiving at box speed and usable under low light when pushed.
- Development
- Use lab-specific black-and-white development times.
- Scanning
- Expect visible but manageable grain.
Profile notes
HP5 Plus is a standard black-and-white choice for documentary, street, portrait, and low-light work. Labs like it because it is forgiving, widely supported, and consistent across common black-and-white developers.
Aliases
HP5HP5+
Related stocks
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Ilford Delta 400
Ilford Delta 400 Professional is a high-speed tabular-grain black-and-white film rated ISO 400, offering fine grain for its speed class and wide push-processing latitude up to EI 3200. A versatile all-purpose professional emulsion for documentary, street, and reportage photography.
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Ilford FP4
Ilford FP4 Plus is a medium-speed, all-purpose black-and-white film rated ISO 125, delivering very fine grain, outstanding sharpness, and superb exposure latitude. A classic emulsion with decades of history, ideal for portraits, landscapes, and architecture in good lighting conditions. Note: the database row carries ISO 400, which is a data entry error — the actual film speed is ISO 125.
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Ilford Kentmere 400
Ilford Kentmere 400 (Kentmere Pan 400) is a budget-tier ISO 400 black-and-white film manufactured by HARMAN Technology. It delivers high speed with fine grain, good sharpness, and broad tonal range — commonly regarded as a cost-effective alternative to ILFORD HP5 Plus. Available in 35mm and 120.