My last roll of Agfa APX100

Does that 'new' APX 100 come in 120, and does it look as good as the old? When I started hearing people (on line, mostly Europeans) talking about APX 100, I was interested. But here in the States I can't find much about the 'new' APX 100 (sales). Great shots, too bad your store is gone.
 
Which scanner did you use imush? I really like the tonality of APX100 (as in your scans), but find it hard to reproduce this quality digitally without making an optical print first.

Sander
 
sandermarijn said:
Which scanner did you use imush? I really like the tonality of APX100 (as in your scans), but find it hard to reproduce this quality digitally without making an optical print first.

Sander
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Nikon 5000ED.

And by the way, I think all of this is CV 21mm lens.
 
I see there is more of this film still available unexpired. Perhaps I'll get a few more rolls, so these won't be the last after all.

For some reason I never got as good results with Fuji Acros and its LegacyPro incarnation. It seems Efke are to be my favorite slow films after APX is gone; Tri-X is aleardy my universal fast film since the demise of Neopan 1600.
 
charjohncarter said:
Does that 'new' APX 100 come in 120, and does it look as good as the old?
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As far as I can make out, 120 has not been available for quite some time, at least three years around here.

There may be fresh APX100 on glass plates - Gevaert still have a APX emulsion equivalent listed for technical photography customers, and Maco claim to be offering some of it from a fresh coating run.

But the current supply of 135 APX100 seems to be old stock, supposedly in the shape of recent cuts from frozen master rolls - and there does not seem to be an end to the supply, it still is the regular black and white film stocked by most German drugstore chains.
 
sevo said:
As far as I can make out, 120 has not been available for quite some time, at least three years around here.

There may be fresh APX100 on glass plates - Gevaert still have a APX emulsion equivalent listed for technical photography customers, and Maco claim to be offering some of it from a fresh coating run.

But the current supply of 135 APX100 seems to be old stock, supposedly in the shape of recent cuts from frozen master rolls - and there does not seem to be an end to the supply, it still is the regular black and white film stocked by most German drugstore chains.
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Wow, you can still buy APX in drugstores in Germany? what are the prices there?
 
I notice from the macodirect.de website that there seem to be two slightly different brands: Agfa and AgfaPhoto. The APX 100 I knew and loved was branded Agfa Agfapan APX 100, made by Agfa-Gevaert AG Leverkusen, and my last batch had an expiry date of 1/2010. Continues to exist only in a state of deep freeze. Now Maco are selling current-dated AgfaPhoto APX 100. Same stuff, or different? This question has been raised elsewhere before, but I'm not sure I've seen a definitive clarification.
 
I bought a load of APX100 from Silverprint in London, it was a superb price. From what I have been told most if not all is defrosted film from the last run.
 
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