Good to hear that the negs scan fine! I guess I will need to get mine scanned.
Hard to tell with negs of course, but I checked them last night and they appear
to be fine.
Jim Couch
Scott Gomez wrote:
> Wow! I'm surprised to hear of that. I've got 5247 slides from around then
> that appear to be in good shape still. I made a quick pass through a few old
> trays just recently and they looked fine. I'll have to check more closely
> though. I've got to confess to never getting the negs printed other than
> from RGB. However, it seems to scan just fine.
>
> I agree about the agfachrome! I used to shoot quite a lot of that and it
> always seemed a very balanced film to me.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Couch [mailto:JamesBCouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [OM] Other filmstocks (long-ish)
>
> Scott,
>
> I shot some 5247 for a few years in the late 70s. I was looking at some of
> my
> slides and the color is horrible! The slides have faded and color shifted
> BADLY.
> I haven't checked the negs yet, hopefully they are OK. Another problem I ran
> into was trying to get the negs printed. Most printers can't deal with the
> different shade of mask on the film.
>
> For many years I shot Agfachrome, and still do when I need a film faster
> than
> K64. It is my second favorite film stock behind the K64. In some cases,
> better.
> The Agfa has a very consistent tonality regardless of what speed film stock
> you
> shoot. The colors are probably the most neutral of any slide film I have
> used.
> In particular the whites remain white and blues are very faithfully
> produced. My
> only real gripe is the stuff is hard to find. I can get the RSX 100 locally,
> but
> anything else has to be ordered.
>
> Jim Couch
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