Has anyone else out there tried Agfa Scala - a mono slide emulsion ratable
from ISO 200 - 1600 (my favourite film, BTW ...) - an expensive bitch to
process, being the very rare E4 (I think) process, but it is just amazing
for mono work, and with better archival qualities than any print (not
counting exotic processes involving Platinum blah blah) ...
Yes . . .
http://johnlind.tripod.com/zi/gallery/contax18.html
http://johnlind.tripod.com/zi/gallery/contax19.html
http://johnlind.tripod.com/zi/gallery/contax20.html
http://johnlind.tripod.com/zi/gallery/contax21.html
http://johnlind.tripod.com/zi/gallery/contax22.html
All of the above were made with the EI at its nominal ISO 200, mostly as
experiments to see how it would respond. I have some more recent ones, but
none are scanned. It can also be pulled to EI 100 for noticeably decreased
contrast; a characteristic sometimes forgotten. Responds to various B&W
filters as one would generally expect, including using a minus-red (cyan;
B+W 470) to shift grayscale rendering of colors toward that of
orthochromatic films. IMO it has excellent mid-tones and is very close to
the fineness of granularity and MTF of ISO 100 Ektachromes (at rated speed).
-- John
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