Let’s mention here AGFA Process 70. Belgian and German, AGFA was the taste of a chocolate chewing while driving a convertible Porsche to Cannes film festival.
This is basically C-41, with the same temperatures and development times. C-41 was commercialized with different abbreviations by the manufacturers — CN-16 by Fuji, AP-70 by AGFA or CNK-4 … Read the rest
Let’s have some ORWO MK-71 in the development tank.
Found few boxes of this film on internet market place. The seller did not know much about the film, there is no leaflet in the box, no specification for it in my ORWO photo materials handbook, not much on the internet. Sounds like perfect blind testing … Read the rest
While it is still cold outside, I decided to spend good hours going back to some of the films I shot last few years. This time I am about to show you Kodak Ektachrome 64 emulsion 6117/6118, the version from the ’80s.
Found few well stored boxes of this film in 9×12 cm sheet film … Read the rest
About 30 or 40 years ago, if you had no access to Kodak or Ilford b&w film, but really insisted on fine grain, contrast photos, you would probably be inserting some ORWO NP-15 into your camera. That is also very likely, if you were inhabiting a territory in a Soviet bloc, like Deutsche Demokratische Republik … Read the rest
Some time ago I was talking about Agfa Process 41 in a post here. As you may read in the article, AP 41 is similar to ORWO C-9165 process (more about it here) and I made a few experiments with various films, most of them not exactly compatible with this mode of development.… Read the rest
Let’s have a look at Konica Minolta VX-100 color negative film. Few years ago I bought some 20 rolls of it to check what colors are hidden in its emulsion.
Konica Minolta VX-100 is designed for general color prints. Using newest technologies at its time, this emulsion enjoys wide exposure latitude and latent image stability. … Read the rest
Let’s have a look at the Fuji Superia 100 color negative film. It was in manufacturing by Fujifilm. The company described it like medium-speed, daylight type, fine grain film, incorporating 4th layer technology. With enhanced color realism and great vividness this film delivers natural skin tones, refined sharpness, wide exposure latitude and accurate reproduction of … Read the rest
Here is my experience (in the form of ten shots) with Fomapan Classic 100. This is a film manufactured by Foma Bohemia — a Czech company, established in 1921 and producing films, photographic papers and chemicals even today.
Here is a link to the page with technical details of Fomapan Classic 100 film.
Fomapan has … Read the rest
This post on ORWO UT-18 color reversal film was the first one on this blog. And the first “readable” image I proudly produced and shared here was this:
UT, as I mentioned before, stands for Umkehr Tageslicht — reversible daylight. Besides DIN 18 (ISO 50), UT had its great time as DIN 15, 16, 20, 21 … Read the rest
Here is my experience with AGFA Gevatone N33p cut sheet film. Having found scarce information and even less examples with it on internet, I opened the box to discover its leaflet. It is described as continuous-tone film with a high gradation.
Internet search told me that this material has been used to store information where … Read the rest