Trying out the Agfa Vista 200 - New shots added

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The Epson 4180 for £3.50 is giving better/easier results than a V750 but don't like the grain, I haven't sharpened this properly but I should get better results from a Pentax 24-35mm zoom...so either it was crappy dev or the film.

Epson 4180 scan

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[yinyangbt]

I'd expect Robin's people to come from that forest Nice !
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I've just seen another clue about this Agfa film:- on the bottom of the plastic film container is stamped "hope"..well I have Fuji superia 200 and Reala 100 both expired at 2007 and they either have "hope" or "Hope2" on the bottom also. So if anyone has bought Fuji c200 or Fuji superia recently (i.e. fresh) it would be interesting to know what is stamped on the bottom.
erm so who would assemble cassette, film and container, erm maybe all sent to China
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Nikon L35ad, EM & N2000, Canon A1, AV1, T70 & T90, Centon K100, Minolta X-700, X-300, SRT101b and AFZ, Pentax S3, Praktica MTL3, MTL5 & BC1, Konica Autoreflex TC, FS-1, FT-1 & C35, Olympus Om20, Yashica T5D, Contax 139, Fuji STX-2, Bronica Etrs, Mamiya RB67 pro AND drum roll:- a Sony DSC-P92
.........past gear Tele Rollieflex and Rollei SL66.
Many lenses from crap to excellent.

[skida]

Maybe the plastic containers are made by the "Hope Plastic Film Container Co." for film company clients.

Any chance of seeing an unsharpened version of the wheat field shot?

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[skida]

I think I prefer the colour rendering of the 4180.

I just found a plastic container with "Hope" on the bottom, under the recycle symbol, but I can't remember which film it contained.

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[skida]

Thanks for taking the time to do that Excalibur, I see not much difference at all between sharpened and unsharpened. I wonder if there are rolls from different production lines, ie: C200 and Superior, making it into the Vista packaging, as your roll seems to have quite pronounced grain compared to mine. My rolls are all 24 shots and I am guessing it is different stock to the 36 shot rolls.

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Using some of my favourite lenses, I have a further puzzle as a supermarket produced better results with dev and scan on another agfa film and eliminated the suspicion that the film is crap. Still to come are the same shots with Canon lenses on superia 200asa, but I'll give the thumbs up for this film at £1 a roll for 36exp and probably get about 30 rolls for testing lenses and backup when I can't use Reala or Superia


Hex28mm 2nd roll of Agfa


Hexanon 40mm 2nd agfa vista


Pano from either Hex 28mm or 40mm, agfa vista


Hexanon 28mm 2nd asta vista

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Nikon L35ad, EM & N2000, Canon A1, AV1, T70 & T90, Centon K100, Minolta X-700, X-300, SRT101b and AFZ, Pentax S3, Praktica MTL3, MTL5 & BC1, Konica Autoreflex TC, FS-1, FT-1 & C35, Olympus Om20, Yashica T5D, Contax 139, Fuji STX-2, Bronica Etrs, Mamiya RB67 pro AND drum roll:- a Sony DSC-P92
.........past gear Tele Rollieflex and Rollei SL66.
Many lenses from crap to excellent.

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That's unbelievable! The difference is amazing.

ps: someone told me that Morrisons are selling "Fuji 400" at 99p! That was about a week ago, so may no longer be current.

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