Walkabout Film
Discontinued in 2001! Agfa HDC (High Definition Color) No idea how old these three rolls ore or how they have been kept. More Info
Agfa Vista 200 (Agfa-Gevaert, Pre 2006)
Agfa Vista was dicontinued in 2018. It's history before that is quite complicated. From 2013 to 2018 most people say that Agfa Vista Plus is just Fujifilm C200. From around 2009 to 2013 the film was also made by Fujifilm but was a custom stock. Prior to that circa 2006 to 2009 the film was Ferrania stock and prior to 2005 it was actually made by Agfa!
Agfa Vista 200 (Agfa-Gevaert, Pre 2006)
I picked up this batch of 3 rolls on e bay. It must be some of the last actually made by Agfa-Gavaert as they stopped making this film in 2006 and switched to rebranding Ferrania Solaris.
Agfa Vista 200 (Fujicolor C200, post 2013)
Agfa Vista was dicontinued in 2018. It's history befor that is quite complicated. From 2013 to 2018 most people say that Agfa Vista Plus is just Fujifilm C200. From around 2009 to 2013 the film was also made by Fujifilm but was a custom stock. Prior to that circa 2006 to 2009 the film was Ferrania stock and prior to 2005 it was actually made by Agfa!
Lomography's Color Negative 100, 400 & 800 are all made by Kodak. What is not known is what they actually are! Are they current Kodak emulsions like Gold & Ultamax or are they older Kodak formulations that Kodak makes specifically for the Lomography company. It was considered to be good value for money but recently the prices jumped about to about $10.00 a roll which it a little steep in my book!
Lomography's Color Negative 100, 400 & 800 are all made by Kodak. What is not known is what they actually are! Are they current Kodak emulsions like Gold & Ultamax or are they older Kodak formulations that Kodak makes specifically for the Lomography company. It was considered to be good value for money but recently the prices jumped about to about $10.00 a roll which it a little steep in my book!
Lomography's Color Negative 100, 400 & 800 are all made by Kodak. What is not known is what they actually are! Are they current Kodak emulsions like Gold & Ultamax or are they older Kodak formulations that Kodak makes specifically for the Lomography company. The 800 is more than likely Kodak Gold 800, the same film that Kodak uses in it's disposable cameras but doesn't sell in 35mm cassettes. It was considered to be good value for money but recently the prices jumped about to about $10.00 a roll which it a little steep in my book!
Fujicolor Superia 200 was discontinued in 2017 but these rolls that I found on Ebay expired in November 2008.
Currently the only Fujifilm Superia product still available as new stock in the USA.
Sold as the professional's Fujicolor film! I received a free roll with an e bay purchase. The film was discontinued in January 2021. Since remaining stocks now go for $30.00 to $40.00 a roll it's safe to say this will be the only roll of it that I ever shoot!
From all reviews it seems that Fujicolor PRESS is not that different from Superia. It was marketed to Professionals & Photo Journalists but there seems to be little difference in performance. This was purchased in a mixed lot and expired around 2006.
The film I loaded into the Miranda Sensorex for these shots is a bit of a mystery film that outside Japan goes by the name of Fujicolor Industrial, even though the word industrial appears nowhere on the box! It’s sold as “film for business purposes” implying commercial or wholesale use which is probably where the word industrial ended up coming from. It’s only distributed in Japan but available in other parts of the world thanks to online resellers. Some say it’s just the same as Fujicolor 100 Japan and folks have documented that both films have the same coding on them. Others say that the light balance of the 2 films is different, I’ve never shot Fujicolor 100 Japan so I have no first hand observations. All this might soon be a mute subject anyway as it’s also been reported that Fuji have recently stopped selling this film even in Japan and there does seem to be a lot less of it available on ebay and the price has also gone way up. It would be a shame if this turns out to be true and another film option has bit the dust!
What the film photography project has to say about this film: This is a super-fine grain film with really interesting colors. Originally produced as "internegative film" it was intended to be used in professional lab machines to make a negative from a slide so that prints could then be made from the negative. It is excellent for long, timed exposures using a tripod or for getting a shallow depth of field in bright sunlight. Take off that ND filter - with this film you can shoot at ƒ2.4 at 1/100 second during a sunny day at the beach! You Must have a camera that can either be set to ISO (ASA) 6 or one that allows manual exposure settings to use this film which has no DX code. Expired circa 2004 but frozen.
The Fujichrome the preceeded all the others from the 1980. These rolls from 1987 were purchased as always frozen. I havent used any of them yet!
Fujichrome MS was film that was designed to be shot at any speed between 100 & 1000 by increasing the push or developing time.
Provia, Velvia, Sensia & Astia, all slide films available from Fuji! Astia is supposed to be more color neutral & better for portraiture. These rolls expired around 2006. I haven't used any yet!
A couple of rolls of 2002 expired Provia 100 slide film to play with!
Just a roll of Provia 400 purchased in a bulk lot that expired some time around 2006.
Some 2005 expired Fujichrome Sensia. I was pleasantly surprised but the colors this film produced. 15 years old with no storage history!
One roll of 64 tungsten film purchased in a bulk lot that expired in around 2006.
Around July 15th I learned that the EPA had banned the sale & processing of Velvia 100 in the USA. The reason being they found it contains 0.0003% Phenol Isopropylated Phosphate. I guess this had been in the works since 2016 but was finally made official on July 6th 2021. What was surprising was the short amount of time between July 6th and September 7th when the EPA would start enforcing the law. Meaning after that date photo labs would no longer be able to process Velvia 100. I checked my film inventory & found I have a 2018 box of 5 rolls frozen since purchase. I’d been saving them for something special now that something special would be using them up before the ban! I decided to make a bit of a project out of it shooting 5 rolls on 5 cameras in 1 month.
Costco's brand Kirkland Film was made in Germany by Agfa.
A batch of Konica Centuria that expired in 2007. No mention of cold storage unfortunately!
I picked up a few rolls of this color film on ebay with an expiration date of 02/2007. Probably from the last batch made as production stopped in 2006.