What Discontinued film do u miss most?

time zero for my sx70...not really film, but magical in it's own right.

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APX100 in Rodinal (1:25 or 1:50) was magic. Especially with my Summicron collapsible or DR. I'm down to about 25 rolls. Sniff...

I've never shot Kodachrome II, but I love the look. Reminds me of 3-strip Technicolor.
 
I am desperately seeking APX 100 in medium format. It is such a glorious film in every developer you can think of. But for me, the film shines like no other in xtol.
 
Artorius:
AFGA slide films(reds and greens)
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For me it was their greens and browns, very muted but a nice long range of them. This was when they had their own chemistry, and before they went over to E-6 (or its predecessor).
 
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The original Fuji Reala from the early to mid ninetees.. That was the one with the purple(!) film base, not the orange film base that followed with New Reala and Superia Reala.. those aren't anywhere near as good.
 
pvdhaar said:
those aren't anywhere near as good.
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That's truely scarey considering just how good current Reala is. Wish I'd had the pleasure.

William
 
wlewisiii said:
That's truely scarey considering just how good current Reala is. Wish I'd had the pleasure.

William
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What happened, is that Fuji did three things at the same time. They changed the film base from purple to orange. And modified the emulsion, by changing the colour response to match the different base, and introduced smaller hexagonal silver halide particles.

So in the resolution department, the modern Realas outperform the original one, and that's what you see.

In the colour department, the original one had the edge, with very very pleasing skin tones and extraordinary accuracy in blue-violet-magenta.
 
Black and White (In order of prefernce):

- Panatomic X (which I discovered in my budding years discovering 35mm)

- Verichrome Pan (which I discovered in my truly callow youth, using a Diana)


Color (three-way tie, plus one Special Mention):

- Agfa Ultra 50 (only shot a few rolls, but wonderfully unique in its palette)

- Kodak Ektar 25/100 (more than just silly-ultra-fine grain, folks...just plain good)

- Kodak Kodacolor 100-6 (Rochester hit the cheap-n'-cheerful jackpot with this version)

- Konica Impresa 50: This one hits rather hard. Yes, some people have screamed about this film's tempermental, narrow exposure latitude (as if any low-speed film is easy in this department?). In fact, you need to pull this stuff back somewhere between EI 25 and 32 to get the best from it. And when you nail it , it's breathtaking...as if Ektar had never left the building. On my last roll, unless I manage to score some more somewhere.

While I can't say I don't miss any or all the above, right now things aren't bad in Filmville to me, especially since Rochester decided to improve my current favorite color film (Portra 160NC), as well as the rest of the Portra line, along with Fuji Pro 400/800, while in b/w territory I've got Ilford XP2, HP5, Pan F and Tri-X. (Nearly forgot slide film: the only thing I use anymore is Kodak's E200, but I have a jones for a Kodachrome project before terribly long).

Edit: Somebody has four rolls of Impresa 50, dated 02/05, on a Certain Auction Site for $20/BIN. If you've got the camera for it, and are curious, you know what to do.

- Barrett
 

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Nachkebia said:
How come nobody bought agfas film department :( I have never used any agfa film :(
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So it's your fault that Agfa had to shut down! Had you used it, they would probably still be up and running!!! ;)

When it comes to APX, Rollei Retro 100 is still sold in both 35mm and 120. Haven't bought any yet but I plan to go on a shopping spree at Fotohuis Rovo (APUGer) later this spring. Three boxes APX100 120 and a bunch of Fomatone to go please!
 
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I miss AgfaPan 25, is there any film with such fine grain in a 25 ASA?:
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There is: Spur Orthopan UR and ADOX CMS20. Both are actually the same film (basically a document film with extremely high resolution). The developer is different; Spur's Orthopan developer is a bit better IMHO regarding contrast and consistency but limits you to 16-20 ASA, Adox's developer delivers a bit more sensitivity (20-25 ASA).

Blows anything out of the water I've ever seen in 35mm, resolution- and grain-wise. The grays are just plain amazing.

Zeiss used Orthopan UR to test their new Biogon 25/f2.8 (info at http://www.spur-photo.com) and found that the film was capable of operating at the theoretical resolution limits of the lens (400 line pairs per millimeter, the dispersion limit at f/4). The film itself can do up to 800 lp/mm at 1000:1 contrast.

So even though we lose old films, we get a lot of interesting new ones, too. Progress is happening.

Philipp
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't APX 100 and 400 still available under one of the Arista names through Freestyle?
 
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