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Reciprocity

Ilford SFX 200 long exposures

What a metered time becomes on SFX 200, and the stops it adds — worked out from Ilford’s own data, never past it.

Your metered time

Tc = Tm^P for metered times over 1 s; 1 s or less needs no correction (P = 1.43)

The maker’s reciprocity data ↗

At a glance

Metered Expose for Added
1 s 1 s —
2 s 2.7 s +0.4 stops
4 s 7.3 s +0.9 stops
8 s 20 s +1.3 stops
15 s 48 s +1.7 stops
30 s 2 min 10 s +2.1 stops
1 min 5 min 49 s +2.5 stops
2 min 15 min 40 s +3 stops
4 min 42 min 13 s +3.4 stops
8 min 1 h 54 min +3.8 stops
16 min 5 h 07 min +4.3 stops

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