As John said, Scala is a great B&W film, but has a pretty narrow latitude for
blowing highlights, as do most transarancy films. It works best in
lower-contrast situtations. The tonality, as mentioned, is very nice, and the
grain is moderately fine. I probably shoot 5-10 rolls/year.
I use the NYC lab http://www.duggal.com for my processing. They turn it around
in about 2-3 days door-to-door from New Jersey. I've also tried it from .dr5,
but the contrast was very high and I won't send it back there. I'd stick
with either Duggal or the LA lab http://www.mainphoto.com in the US (there's
also one in Miami). According to Agfa, there is also one in Toronto
http://www.magic.ca/tiw/. I see no reason to use a lab that's not recommended
by Agfa.
I've also tried the .dr5 process for some other Kodak and Ilford B&W films, but
was underwhelmed vs. Scala; unless you NEED some sort of warm-tone slide. I
wouldn't go back there for anything but Mediumn Format B&W transparancies, in
which case I'd use Tri-X, which is their premier film.
Skip
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>Subject: [OM] AGFA Scala BW SLIDE,
> From: "Soegi Hartono" <SHartono@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:48:54 -0700
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hello Everyone,
>
>I am wondering if anyone could spare some experience on AGFA Scala BW SLIDE,
>I am told that the process is not every lab can do it, I live in vancouver
>canada and looking at the web site there's only in one place in toronto
>could do it.
>
>Thanks millions
>
>SG
>
>
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