Which out of production film would you like to have again?

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I was reading the posts about teh favourite B/W film and it come to mind something related. What is the out of production film which you would like to have back the most? It would be nice (I know that will never happen!) if some sale department big guy would read this and decide to restart the production of something people really like...

Well I start with my vote which goes to the Agfa APX 25.

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Amen!

Amen!

Gordon Coale said:
Kodachrome 25.
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The One. The Only. The Winner.

Too bad the Gates Foundation or Mr. Buffett don't pay attention to us little people. Imagine what a noble gesture it would be to endow the perpetual manufacture and processing of the one color film most responsible for documenting the 20th century. Folks in this century will never know what they missed.

Virtually everything AGFA made is sorely missed too. Brovira paper. Sigh!

Grinning. Hey Gordon, us Geezers think alike, eh!
 
Some good ones listed-
I would love some APX25 to shoot with the Leica- never did shoot it in 35mm.

Ektar 25! I'd forgotten about that one- wonderful stuff that was.

But I think for me it might have to be Panatomic-X.
(three rolls left in the freezer:( )
 
Actually, Kodachrome 64 is still with us. I haven't shot any transparencies in over 20 years but running across The Kodachrome Project has inspired me to load up the last remaining Kodachrome available. I've recently been scanning some Kodachrome my grandfather shot in my Leica IIIc in 1949. Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away!
 
Kodachrome 25. I just love the color rendition of this film. The only film that I ever used that would accurately capture the lavendar/pink color of some North American wildflowers.
 
Altogether now. Wrtie Congress. Write every Arts Council thingie you can think of. Write Bill, Paul, Larry, Warren, Malcom, etc. Heck, if those 5 kicked in the equivalent a year's airplane and yacht budget Kodachrome production & processing could be kept alive forever. I mean we would be buying the film and paying for the processing. I'm saying it should be free. OK, that would be nice too but not realistic.

Earl, what do your sources deep inside the Big Yellow Box say? Give them my thanks for the Portra film also. I really appreciated that.
 
Jeez- so many things I'd like to shoot with. I never got to shoot with Panatomic-X, but I'd almost kill to try it, from all I've read and seen. What I did shoot a lot of and miss dearly now is the old Tri-X, as it was twenty years ago. The density you could build in that film with the old base and emulsion formulation was incredible.

I shoot very little color film these days, but that would change if I could get more Kodachrome 25. I have about a dozen rolls left in the freezer, and I find myself getting very stingy about what is worth shooting them on.

Now, if this thread were about what PAPERS I miss, I could go on for days...

Oh- and for the folks who miss Scala- I have 5 or 10 rolls in 35mm in my freezer that I will never shoot- who wants it? PM me.
 
All great choices, Agfa APX 25, Kodachrome 25, but I'd have to say Panatomic-X in 35mm, 120 and 4x5. I still have a few old rolls of the 120 and the chance to shoot it in 4x5 would be fantastic. Maybe Kodachrome 25 in 4x5 as well.
 
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