In my brief experiment with Agfachrome RSX 100 I found that it had a
coarser, harder edged grain than Fuji. It made up for it by appearing
sharper and having a much nicer, more natural color rendition. Grey
clouds were gray without the magenta tinge that Fuji likes to add. I
suspect that Agfa never did keep up with Kodak and Fuji in the fine
grain color race, but other characteristics make it a very nice film. I
really liked the slides, but scans were grainy.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 13, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Moose wrote:
> I don't know yet if the AGFA Vista 200 is just noisy. I've tried
> rescanning it at both 2000 and 3200 dpi to see if there is any effect
> on
> apparent grain. If anything, the 4000 dpi scan downsized to 2000 dpi
> has
> very slightly nicer grain than the 2000 dpi scan and the 3200 dpi adds
> nothing.
>
> Moving on to the next roll of film, Kodak Royal Gold 400 I'm now am
> seeing more of what I expected from film.
>
> The top image is simply an Image I really like from our recent trip.
> Just a little way in from the coast, things are very different
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/FvD05.htm>.
>
> The lower images are crops from other pics, more closely framed of the
> same bridge with OM-4 and 300D. I wish I'd remembered to set the 300D
> iso to 400, but nonetheless, the film certainly holds its own. Please
> don't spend time analyzing the color balance differences. There were
> moving clouds and the two shots were taken a few minutes apart, so the
> light was simply different, and not nearly as nice as for the top shot.
>
> I'm fascinated by how the two are both so similar and yet so different
> in many subtle details. For example, the rivets seem just a little
> sharper on the digital image on both sides of paint texture that seems
> better defined on film. No sky here to look at grain, but other shots
> make it clear that the combo of Vista 200 and my scanner is quite a bit
> grainier looking than with Royal Gold 400.
>
> In the first comparison, somebody asked about processing. Both these
> films were processed at the same time and place, with consecutive roll
> numbers, so the grain in Vista has nothing to do with processing.
>
>
> Moose
>
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