This is fresh film and not from the leftover stock made when agfa colapsed. The data herein published were derived from materials taken from general production runs. Massive dev chart film development, film developing database. Does anyone have experience with apx 100 developed in d76. The german plant in leverkusen was taken offline and the remaining stock of apx 100 and apx 400 produced there was bought up by a company called lupus imaging and media and has been sold under the rollei retro brand as well as under the old agfa apx brand. First off, it suffers from a lack of brand recognition among new and casual shooters. There are some pdf files on agfas web site, which despite typographical errors that. Adox bought a lot of the machinery from the old agfa leverkusen plant and hired some of agfa leverkusens former engineers. We are currently having some technical problems on our site.
Agfaphotos apx 400 professional black and white negative film is a high speed black and white film for producing prints using a traditional black and white printing process. I always go to ilford delta 100 or kodak tmax 100, but this apx has a nice price and i wanted to give it a go. Based on shadow detail, id have to rate tmax and delta 400 at 200, trix and hp5 at 400, and agfa 400 at 320 using this developermeter combination. This film can be used universally and is suitable for a variety of applications in the field of indoor and outdoor photography in bright light. Apx 400 film is available in 35mm format with 36 exposures only. Archive new emulsion agfaphoto apx400 monochrome film. The rollei replacements for rollei retro 100 400 apx100 400 are rollei retro 80s and 400s which are not the same as apx films and are still being produced by agfa gevaert in mortsel, belgium and sold by agfa not to be confused with agfaphoto as aerial photography films aviphot, link here. For these reasons the films for this area are measured by special standards. The light was weird this day, and mighty dim for the iso 100 film i was packing. Agfa gevaert is still alive and in fact producing all kinds of stuff. Thanks to its fine grain and wide range of exposure, it produces striking images with excellent sharpness and contrast.
New emulsion agfaphoto apx400 archive film and darkroom user. Adox pan 400 film agfaphoto in leverkusen went into receivership in 2005 and all attempts to save it failed. A quick test agfaphoto apx 400 professional 35mm film having used agfaphotos apx100 for a few years, it seemed a good idea to try the 400 asa version as i havent used much film above 100 asa for a while. Currently out of stock due end of july rollei retro 400s is the successor to. Then add that to the fact that apx 400 is tonal beyond belief. Yes, its grainy but its the sharpest damn grain youve ever seen. Robert if i recall well says its not a good idea to push apx 400 as its a real 250 iso film. The biggest difference i saw was in shadow separation trix and hp5 were clearly better than the others at drawing out shadow details, with agfa apx 400 right behind them. Agfapan apx 100 agfapan apx 400 agfa scala 200x new generation as of 2003 in professional photography and creative imaging the main considerations are quality, continuity and individuality.
Retro 400s data sheet pdf retro 400s comparison test pdf. To download a printable pdf version of this chart, click here. A quick test agfaphoto apx 400 professional 35mm film. Agfa black and white film luts 542508 plugins design.
Agfaphoto apx 400 is a fast speed black and white photo camera film suitable for. Films from the agfaphoto apx range are professional blackandwhite films with high resolution and fine grain. Agfa apx 400 is a newer emulsion of an older agfa film stock. Agfa apx 400 is a punchy fast monochrome that gives photos a crisp style perfectly suited to lomography. This might cause some unexpected behaviour requests taking too long, you getting logged out.
Continuous for the first minute, then every 30 seconds. I believe that apx 400 is as many other films are developer dependant. However, changes in specifications may occur without prior notice. Apx 400 provides remarkable performance and reliability even in bad light. Strange, just last week adox had a film on their website, adox pan 400 based on apx 400 to be released and today there are no trace of this. The company that is going to reintroduce apx 100 400 is adox fotowerke gmbh in germany. High speed film, rated at iso 400 27 suitable for a wide range of general purpose photography fine grain good sharpness broad tonal range.
Apx 100 is a medium speed black and white photo camera film suitable for a broad variety of indoorand outdoor applications of photography. Agitated for the first 10 seconds and another 10 half time. Agfaphoto apx 400 professional black and white negative. I finally got around to trying some apx 400 this week. Agfa scala 200x was black and white slide film and had razor sharpness, extremely fine grain and just a beautiful clean smooth look. Finally, we have a bit of a black sheep in the 400 speed, black and white film comparison. Technical data agfa bw chemicals film processing maug lee. Aggitation for 10 sec every minute, by petrhartig on 14 may 2020. Agfa leverkusen nexistant plus on ne sait dou vient ce. The strengths of apx 100 are apparent in diverse fields. Agfa graphics offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the printing and graphics industries. Yesterday i toke the fuji klasse with me on my way to work.
I saw walkers post of antique cars taken with orwo film and it was mentioned that it was an old agfa. Apx 400 s claim to fame is its incredible highlight. This means that the applications for apx 400 are almost limitless. Being rated at iso 400, apx 400 is particularly suitable for action photography and available light situations. Over the last few decades the agfa brand has certainly lost its luster, which is a shame considering they were one of the largest and best film manufacturers in europe for much of the 20th century. Continually updated, the chart has been online since 1995 and contains both manufacturers published times and user submissions. Technical data agfa professional films agfacolor optima 100 agfacolor optima 200 agfacolor optima 400 agfacolor portrait 160 agfachrome rsx ii 50 agfachrome rsx ii 100 agfachrome rsx ii 200 agfapan apx 100 agfapan apx 400 agfa scala 200x new generation as of 2003 in professional photography and creative imaging the main. Plastic lensed halina with agfaphoto apx100 processed and scanned by digitalab. The apx 400 is considered as an absolutely reliable partner for. Agfaphoto vista plus 400 film profile casual photophile. Since november 2006 the company is beeing liquidated. Agfa s own outstanding blackandwhite emulsions apx 100 professional is an extremely finegrained mediumspeed film which, if processed carefully in rodinal, gives as fine a grain as is likely to be required with most photographic subjects and situations. From what ive read in several places those films wont be made with the.
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