AgfaPhoto CT 100 Precisa: Best quality film at lowest price

I've been slowly buying this film for the past two years. First rolls I bought had exp. date 2014/05. Exp. date was slowly moving forward as I was buying more, but hasn't moved past 2015/06 for the rolls I bough in last 6 months or so.

Now, it might mean nothing or it could mean that this semi-free Provia 100F ride is slowly coming to an end.

What is the latest exp. date anyone has seen on CT Precisa 100?
 
Portra 400 is $8/roll from B & H in a 5-pack, sounds like the Precisa may be half that price. I would gladly give it a try.

Randy
 
Peter Wijninga said:
You'll find current German prices here: http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=AgfaPhoto%20CT%20100%20Precisa
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No, sorry Peter, please forget amazon Germany.
There are much better and cheaper places in Germany to buy this film.
Currently the cheapest source are the dm drugstore chain shops.
A double pack of two films costs 8,45€ there (there are some regional differences in prices with the dm shops; in some cities they are a bit cheaper, in some a bit more expensive).
The expiry date of the films I've bought there last November is 06/2015, so still 1,5 years. That is completely in line with expiry dates of Fujifilm in general, therefore there is absolutely no need to worry.

@ Mohammed: Thanks for sharing your pictures! Very nice work, as always from you.

Cheers, Jan
 
Just out of curiosity, are those prices typical for consumer films? How many exposures?
In Canada, something like Kodak Gold 200 is $10 for a three-pack of 24 exposures each. That's roughly 6,70€.

Fuji Superia 400 is a little bit more than that. Outside of those films, you get some drugstore branded films for roughly the same amount, maybe a little less. Usually it's Fuji.

At the consumer level, I don't see any 36 exp rolls around here. You need to move up to Portra/Ektar and specialty shops.
 
CliveC said:
Just out of curiosity, are those prices typical for consumer films? How many exposures?
In Canada, something like Kodak Gold 200 is $10 for a three-pack of 24 exposures each. That's roughly 6,70€.

Fuji Superia 400 is a little bit more than that. Outside of those films, you get some drugstore branded films for roughly the same amount, maybe a little less. Usually it's Fuji.

At the consumer level, I don't see any 36 exp rolls around here. You need to move up to Portra/Ektar and specialty shops.
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The AgfaPhot CT Precisa 100 is 36 Exposure as far as I know. Haven't heard or seen this film in 24 Exposures!
 
mob81 said:
The AgfaPhot CT Precisa 100 is 36 Exposure as far as I know. Haven't heard or seen this film in 24 Exposures!
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Oops, sorry, didn't realize it was slide film. Can't get that at all unless it's from photography shops. Even fewer places develop it.

Germany (maybe Europe in general?) seems to be a lot more accepting of film.
 
CliveC said:
Germany (maybe Europe in general?) seems to be a lot more accepting of film.
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Hi Clive,

yes, Germany is "film shooters paradise" (and in general photography is very popular here; we have more than 20 print photo magazines here for example).
Germany has one of the best (if not the best) film infrastructures worldwide. It is very easy and cheap to get your E6 and C-41 (and BW) films processed. Dozens of professional labs are doing it here, and all drugstore chains are offering it.
Therefore with more than 3500 drugstore chain shops here in Germany we have more than 3500 places where we can give our films for development.
So, if you visit Germany and you want to have your E6/C41 films developed for extremely low costs, you cant get this service everywhere. Just go to a Rossmann, dm or Müller drugstore chain shop. Development costs are very low: 2,55€ at Rossmann (both E6 and C41), and 0,95€ / 1,95€ at dm for E6 / C41.

The reason for these extremely low costs is the lab infrastructure in Germany: Besides all the professional labs with dip and dunk processing we have five big lab companies with about eight big industrial scale mass volume labs, which are developing several million films p.a., and making several billion prints on traditional RA-4 silverhalide paper p.a. (most of the prints are meanwhile from digital files). They are making the development and prints for the drugstore chains, and also for photo shops (brick and mortar).

Furthermore in Germany are more than ten specialised online distributors for film photography. The biggest of them like Macodirect and Fotoimpex are also doing international business and shipping to other countries.

And there is a new print magazine for film photography only, the "PhotoKlassik" www.photoklassik.de.

As for your questions:
AgfaPhoto CT Precisa is 36exp., as all 35mm slide films.
Consumer colour negative film is offered here in 24exp. and 36exp. Both Kodak and Fuji.
You can get the whole Fuji Superia line here: 200, 400, 800 and 1600.
Kodak Gold (and "Farbwelt", a German/Austrian packaging of Gold) and Ultramaxx are offered, too. Some online shops are selling Kodak ColorPlus as well.
The drugstore chains are offering ISO 200 and 400 house brand color negative film, which is all from Fujifilm. Both 24exp. and 36exp.
The prices of these housebrand film is extremely low: For example a 3-pack of Rossmann ISO 400 36exp is 2,65€, so only 88 Cent for one film!
The cheapest RA-4 prints are 1 (!!) Cent in 9x13cm.
A Kodak Gold 200 36exp. at Rossmann drugstores for example cost 3,79€. And Kodak BW 400 CN is available at Rossmann drugstores, and the AgfaPhoto BW films are offered at the dm drugstores.

For prices of all the professional films just look at
www.macodirect.de
www.fotoimpex.de
www.nordfoto.de

Cheers, Jan
 
Hi,
I can fully agree with all the very positive comments on this nice film.
My experiences are exactly the same:
Excellent quality at extremely low price!

Some weeks ago I've been on a trip through several South-East-Asien countries, and besides my usual BW slide films I've shot 30 rolls of AgfaPhoto CT Precisa 100 film on this journey.
The results are simply stunning!
Projected with my outstanding Leica-Super-Colorplan Lens in my Pradovit PC projector, these pictures on the screen are absolutely breathtaking!!
Impossible to get that unsurpassed quality with digital projection.

Highly recommended stuff!
 
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