Ilford Delta 400 was the first of the Delta family of films, released in 1990. It has siblings in the form of Delta 100 and Delta 3200. Like its rival, Kodak TMax, Ilford Delta 400 is a tabular grain, black and white negative film. It features fine, smooth grain with crisp and sharp detail. Delta 400 has average contrast, making it effective in a versatile array of lighting conditions. Perhaps one of Delta 400's most interesting features is that it has no distinctive aesthetic feature at all! It's visual versatility is it's strength in that there is not just one style to it. This quality reflects Delta 400's flexibility in terms of allowing the photographer to govern the look and feel of their own images. The grain and contrast of Delta 400 can be easily modified, via exposure or development, to fine tune its final appearance. While this requires a photographer to use Delta 400 over the course of several rolls to get to know it, in the long run, it is a film that allows itself to be readily molded by the photographer to fit their style.