AgfaPhoto APX 400 back from the dead?

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Just noticed that an online vendor here in Europe has started selling AgfaPhoto APX 400 in bulk - made in Germany with the expiration date: 12-2014.

I thought APX 400 was long gone. Anybody know if this is the real stuff -
Or did I miss a news flash?

100ft./30.5 m film is a lot to buy - only to find out it is not what you expected.


Cheers,

/Meakin
 
The Agfaphoto APX 100 and 400 are produced by a third party under license from Agfaphoto. I bought 10 rolls of APX 100 last month. The name of the manufacturer is on the box, but I can't remember it right now.
 
Re: the old stock, Yeah - I've seen APX 100 around as well (Though until now - not APX 400). I think it was the expiration date the got my attention tho', as I would have thought old stock, would have a shorter exp. date on it ?

Edward - have you tried any APX 400 by any chance? - it would be interesting to know if it is close to/ the same as the old stuff. Wonder who the third party APX 400 manufacturer is?

Cheers,

/Meakin
 
Meakin said:
Of course! - stupid of me not to (sorry about that)

http://www.foto-r3.com/agfaphoto-apx-400-35mm-x-305m-12-2014.html
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Lupus/Agfaphoto seem inclined to use their brand for evil purposes, and have done so in the past where CN film was concerned - some Agfacolor branded batches that hit German chain drugstores after original Agfa stock ran out were obviously Ferrania's worst.

But re-packaging a third party product that is as low-volume and esoteric as black and white bulk is hardly profitable even if they'd do it for world distribution - nobody would bother to do so for a solitary Spanish dealer. This will be old stock, perhaps with a excessively optimistic shelf life estimate (the last APX 400 widely distributed in Germany expired in late 2010).
 
I suppose it may have been frozen, to explain the exp. date, but otherwise I have to agree with sevo. I think you can assume it's the real thing. Not a lot of it, at any rate (25 in stock).
 
Meakin said:
Just noticed that an online vendor here in Europe has started selling AgfaPhoto APX 400 in bulk - made in Germany with the expiration date: 12-2014.

I thought APX 400 was long gone. Anybody know if this is the real stuff -
Or did I miss a news flash?

Cheers,

/Meakin
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Hi,

all AgfaPhoto APX 400 which is currently sold is still old stock from the last production run 2005 in Agfas old plant in Leverkusen, Germany.
This stuff with the updated expiration date is stock from the freezer.
There is no new production so far.
InovisCoat (www.inoviscoat.de) and Adox are working on a successor, which then shall be sold as Adox Pan 400 and AgfaPhoto APX 400.
But as Adox has said several times, this film will be different from the original (they try to make it with finer grain and as a real ISO 400 film; APX 400 has only about 250).
No one knows at the moment when this film will hit the market.

Cheers, Jan
 
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