The "What to Shoot with APX 25" Thread

Stephanie Brim

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I obviously need help with this. I have ONE roll of Agfa APX 25 laying around here and I have no idea what to shoot with it. The only thing I can come up with is shooting portraits of my entire family with it (including me) using a tripod.

So...what would you do if you had ONE roll of Agfa APX 25? Dream a little. Use your imagination.
 
longer shutterspeed allows you to make nice pics full of motion.🙂
portraits should be great with.🙂
experiment in Kenna's way with very long shutter speeds.🙂
may be some architectoral stuff?🙂
push it 2 steps and see what you got.🙂
 
This is a great film for portraiture. The tonality is just amazing. Efke 25 comes close if you get hooked up on it.

Philipp
 
I agree with portraiture. Architecture is OK, but only if you get some very interesting buildings etc. Finally, I'd say early morning landscapes. As we move toward Fall here in the northern hemisphere, a slightly misty morning scene would render really will with APX.

Whatever you choose, I'm jealous!
 
Trius said:
The company has been discontinued. Actually, APX 25 was discontinued quite some time ago. I loved the stuff.

Huh? Says who? B&H just got restocked on Agfa film, I bought a whole bunch of APX 100 and 400, as well as some Vista film.

It did go through some troubles, but I believe that issue's been resolved and the film's back in production.

APX 25 - portraits and long-time exposure of architechture.
 
No, the film is definitely not back in production. This is old stock, Agfa Photo was capable of producing a years worldwide demand for B/W film in less than one week.

The coating mashines run at a fixed speed, so you either produce lots of film or nothing.

Rumor has it, that fotoimpex/JandC bought the coating mashines and may set up it's own B/W film production either in Europe or the USA.
I think they'll have short production runs of a day or two for every emulsion once a year and keep the batches frozen until sold.
 
Socke said:
No, the film is definitely not back in production. This is old stock, Agfa Photo was capable of producing a years worldwide demand for B/W film in less than one week.

The coating mashines run at a fixed speed, so you either produce lots of film or nothing.

Rumor has it, that fotoimpex/JandC bought the coating mashines and may set up it's own B/W film production either in Europe or the USA.
I think they'll have short production runs of a day or two for every emulsion once a year and keep the batches frozen until sold.

Well, this is very interesting; I certainly did not know that, thanks for the info.

Wow, that's a neat business, run a few days, and sell for years. Or is it? Wanna get in the film-producing business, Socke? You sprache Deutsche and I hablo Español. We'll move to Mexico (lots of silver there), I know a few temperate climate cities; shoot around the area, lounge around the beaches. Take a break from taking a break. It'll be a blast!
 
gabrielma said:
Well, this is very interesting; I certainly did not know that, thanks for the info.

Wow, that's a neat business, run a few days, and sell for years. Or is it? Wanna get in the film-producing business, Socke? You sprache Deutsche and I hablo Español. We'll move to Mexico (lots of silver there), I know a few temperate climate cities; shoot around the area, lounge around the beaches. Take a break from taking a break. It'll be a blast!

Hablo un poco de espaniol tambien, un pocito poco 🙂

The problem with small production runs are fixed cost like rent/lease, maintenance, electricity and other running costs you have by just owning the equipment.

On the other hand, we can combine that with a business idea I have with some friends for some time.

We want to set up a marina with photostudio, divebase and hairdresser somewhere in the carribean.

The reason is easy, we're all photographers, two are divers, one paddy divemaster and one paddy rescue diver, I can teach sailing and one, who is a PJ, prefers blondes, thats why we need the hairdresser, and we all like the carribean islands.

So with our marina where we host business incentives and motivation training as well as photo courses, or turn pirates, we can set up a film production right next to our destillery.

While I sail on my Catalina 42 with executives on a motivation course, Holger and Jaques go cave diving with an incentive course who'll get AiX training after I return and Marcus gives lighting courses con latinas rubios at the beach you could supervise the film and rum production 😀
 
Socke said:
after I return and Marcus gives lighting courses con latinas rubios at the beach you could supervise the film and rum production 😀
Excellent! The film production is only a few days, the rum I can take over to las rubias. Where do I sign up? Me trepo al primer avion! 😀 (but it really sounds like a good idea, having a production setup down there...think of it)

Sorry, Steph. Didn't mean to hijack your thread.

We'll provide APX 25 - equivalent if this baby flies (not dive!!)
 
Me too eh? I have one last roll of APX 25 120 in my freezer...plus I found 2 rolls of 36 exp. 35mm APX 25 in a fridge at a local Museum & Archives. All of these + a roll of Kodak Verichrome are just waiting for the right situation.

~hibbs
 
this morning I had coffee at Saint Starbucks with Tony Rose and Chris Weeks. We discussed a test shot taken with the M8 (it looks great), Tony's ZF 85/1.4, Leica and Zeiss marketing, my 1913 Simplex (American made 35mm camera), an upcoming street photography contest, and the 1000 rolls of 25 APX Chris has stashed in a freezer. it's his favorite film. he shoots it wide open at f/1 or 1.4 in daylight.

what to shoot? what ever the hell has some passion with you. no right or wrong answer, just something that feels important to you.

Stephen
 
So family.

I think I'll get them all together wearing black shirts and khakis and see if I can't come up with a few good portraits. I think that will do very nicely.
 
It would be interesting to compare APX-25 with EFKE-25. As for suitable subjects, anything that has sufficient light will do. I shot many hundreds of Kodachrome-25 slides and they still look good.

Walker
 
I did not know that APX25 was discontinued two years ago when I used up five 120 rolls in regular snapshots in New Orleans. The goodthing is that I paid premium for B&W developing and prints and the shots were taken with a Rolleiflex TLR on a tripod and with cable release.

Raid
 
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