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Source for Perutz film?
Does anyone know of a source for Perutz Primera(?) 100 film in 35mm? I
have some old negs with "Perutz PR 100" on them and they have the most natural colors I've ever seen. |
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Jim wrote: Does anyone know of a source for Perutz Primera(?) 100 film in 35mm? I have some old negs with "Perutz PR 100" on them and they have the most natural colors I've ever seen. Most likely an Agfa HDC, XRG or Vista, which would depend on the negatives' age. I have taken color slides on Perutz 100 slide film some 15 years ago, which was the same film as Agfachrome CT 100 then. Perutz had been merged in 1964 into the Agfa-Gevaert corporation and was used as a sort of generic-brand label for Agfa films. Dr. Heinz Anderle, Austria |
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Jim wrote: Does anyone know of a source for Perutz Primera(?) 100 film in 35mm? I have some old negs with "Perutz PR 100" on them and they have the most natural colors I've ever seen. PS: see http://cgi.ebay.de/Perutz-Color-100-...QQcmdZViewItem This might well be an Agfa Vista of the last generation: films easy to scan with excellent daylight color rendition. |
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Source for Perutz film?
"Dr. Heinz Anderle" writes:
This might well be an Agfa Vista of the last generation: films easy to scan with excellent daylight color rendition. Actually now that Agfa color negative film is mentioned... I really enjoyed the daylight color rendition of Agfa Vista 200. And especially the color rendition during sunset. However, scanning proved somewhat problematic: There were huge roundish pale areas at the bottom and top of the frame, apparently at the same spot as the perforations but in the image area (hard to explain without an example; the only vista 200 scanned images I have on the web were tediously photoshopped to correct for this error..) This problem appeared with both Canoscan 8400F and K-M 5400 II - and, digital prints made at the developing lab did not exhibit this problem. Whatever the problem was, I gave the last 3 rolls away to a friend because I couldn't figure out how to scan them without these problems. Another strange Agfa thing is that I had a roll of "XRG 200", which was color negative film. The colors are a bit strange and the film doesn't look too sharp. However the really strange thing is that everywhere else XRG 200 is listed as a color slide film! I swear mine is color negative, complete with the orange mask and all. |
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Toni Nikkanen wrote:
However, scanning proved somewhat problematic: There were huge roundish pale areas at the bottom and top of the frame, apparently at the same spot as the perforations ... Could be stress from your camera's winding motor, combined with the relatively thin plastic base. I've seen that phenomenon before. The really strange thing is that everywhere XRG 200 is listed as a color slide film! I swear mine is color negative, complete with the orange mask and all. XRG (and what looks like its successor XRS) is clearly listed as a negative film in the Vuescan film types table: http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc15.htm Was XRG the predecessor of HDC? It always seemed to me that HDC was just Optima repackaged for consumer use, perhaps with less quality control, although Optima was not refrigerated in the US distribution channel so it was hard to classify it as a true professional film. |
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Source for Perutz film?
Toni Nikkanen wrote: .... I really enjoyed the daylight color rendition of Agfa Vista 200. And especially the color rendition during sunset. However, scanning proved somewhat problematic: There were huge roundish pale areas at the bottom and top of the frame, apparently at the same spot as the perforations but in the image area (hard to explain without an example; the only vista 200 scanned images I have on the web were tediously photoshopped to correct for this error..) This problem appeared with both Canoscan 8400F and K-M 5400 II - and, digital prints made at the developing lab did not exhibit this problem. Whatever the problem was, I gave the last 3 rolls away to a friend because I couldn't figure out how to scan them without these problems. I know this effect which I assume to originate from light leakage, but it is not specific to Agfa films. I have used Agfa Vista (also sold under a generic brand name by a drugstore chain, similar to e. g. Walgreen's) for many years and have recently re-scanned many negatives with my Acer/Benq 2740s and VueScan, without any problems. |
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Source for Perutz film?
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Toni Nikkanen writes: I really enjoyed the daylight color rendition of Agfa Vista 200. And especially the color rendition during sunset. However, scanning proved somewhat problematic: There were huge roundish pale areas at the bottom and top of the frame, apparently at the same spot as the perforations but in the image area These sound like surge marks, which are caused by uneven flow of developer solution around sprocket holes. If so, this is an issue with development technique or equipment, not the film or scanner. How was the film developed? Surge marks can occur because of excessive agitation when film is developed in small tanks. I've seen them on some commercially-developed rolls in the 1980s (presumably done with "dip & dunk" machinery). I don't know if minilab machinery could produce anything like surge marks. I've never heard of different C-41 films exhibiting different sensitivity to surge marks, but I can't rule out the possibility. FWIW, I bought a bunch of Agfa Vista 200 on eBay a while ago. I've had no problems like those you describe, either printing in a conventional darkroom or scanning with a Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 scanner. -- Rod Smith, http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking |
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Rod Smith wrote: In article , Toni Nikkanen writes: I really enjoyed the daylight color rendition of Agfa Vista 200. And especially the color rendition during sunset. However, scanning proved somewhat problematic: There were huge roundish pale areas at the bottom and top of the frame, apparently at the same spot as the perforations but in the image area These sound like surge marks, which are caused by uneven flow of developer solution around sprocket holes. If so, this is an issue with development technique or equipment, not the film or scanner. How was the film developed? Surge marks can occur because of excessive agitation when film is developed in small tanks. I've seen them on some commercially-developed rolls in the 1980s (presumably done with "dip & dunk" machinery). I don't know if minilab machinery could produce anything like surge marks. I've never heard of different C-41 films exhibiting different sensitivity to surge marks, but I can't rule out the possibility. Thank you. This explanation sounds most logical. |
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