I know this may be commercially sensitive, but are you able to tell us what the general theme of your future products are likely to be? ie, what sort of papers & films we might be likely to see?
Cheers,
Lachlan
This would not work. You could choose a sensitizer which is peaking at IR and steeply falling off making it not sensitive to green but then it would rise at blue agan.
However this only reduces the speed of the film if exposed without an IR filter and does not help you to get higher IR sensitivity.
I know this may be commercially sensitive, but are you able to tell us what the general theme of your future products are likely to be? ie, what sort of papers & films we might be likely to see?
The problem with answering this question is the complexity involved in manufacturing silver halide products. From a comercial standpoint it is pointless to ever enter this market as long as competitors still remain in it working with written off product implementation costs and machinery. But to your luck we are bad merchants, rather enthusiasts ;-)
We also have low cost adaptions on the machine park side but we lack the written off product implementation costs. So designing and making an entirely new product is less likely. It gets into the grey zone if we are talking taking known recipes and reproducing them like we did with MCC/MCP, Agfa chems and Polywarmtone (in progress). It gets very probable if we think about taking existing products and widen the variants (e.g. another version of CHS 100 II on clear TAC in order to bring it back into Super8 cartridges or trying to get it to be an IR film) or enriching the choice of base tints and surfaces of the exisiting paper range.
Will this do for now like this?
Mirko
The problem with answering this question is the complexity involved in manufacturing silver halide products. From a comercial standpoint it is pointless to ever enter this market as long as competitors still remain in it working with written off product implementation costs and machinery. But to your luck we are bad merchants, rather enthusiasts ;-)
We also have low cost adaptions on the machine park side but we lack the written off product implementation costs. So designing and making an entirely new product is less likely. It gets into the grey zone if we are talking taking known recipes and reproducing them like we did with MCC/MCP, Agfa chems and Polywarmtone (in progress). It gets very probable if we think about taking existing products and widen the variants (e.g. another version of CHS 100 II on clear TAC in order to bring it back into Super8 cartridges or trying to get it to be an IR film) or enriching the choice of base tints and surfaces of the exisiting paper range.
Will this do for now like this?
Mirko
Keep up the good work Adox.
When I finish my current stock (have been buying Adox films for a while now) I'm going to order a 30m roll of Silvermax, as I just got myself a bulk film loader.
My request/hope would be to eventually see some higher asa products. Your films (AFAIK) are all 100 asa and less. I guess the operative question is where could you bring some added value and innovation to justify the effort, but to my (admittedly technically semi-ignorant) mind some faster film would be the most obvious terrain to explore.
All the best
Ian
What would be cool is a real IR emulsion. But I doubt there is enough demand.
The problem with answering this question is the complexity involved in manufacturing silver halide products. From a comercial standpoint it is pointless to ever enter this market as long as competitors still remain in it working with written off product implementation costs and machinery. But to your luck we are bad merchants, rather enthusiasts ;-)
Instead of waiting, you can use right now the Ilford SFX film.I've been waiting... patiently... for someone to fill this void. Even a yearly run on the stuff, like Konika used to do would be nice.
SFX is not a true infrared film.Instead of waiting, you can use right now the Ilford SFX film.
I know, but that's what we have, and the Rollei "Infrared", that is closer to one.SFX is not a true infrared film.
If i can make a wish, it would be for Adox to release a "Direct Reversal"-type film. That is, a B/W film which gives a reversal image without requiring a reversal process (bleach, re-exposure, etc). I think Agfa "Dia-Direct" (ISO 32) did this in the past.
The theory behind, if i understood correctly, is similar to solarization but in a controlled way: Additional incoming photons 'destroy' the silver and prevents it from developing, thus, white light gives no developed silver and low light gives developed silver (= BLACK).
Nobody is making such a film and I bet that if you can keep the speed 'usable', that is, at least ISO 25, it could be a great alternative to us who want to do B/W reversal but with simpler development. In 120 medium format or in large format this should give BEAUTIFUL, impressive results.
PS: To Mirko,
If i can make a wish, it would be for Adox to release a "Direct Reversal"-type film. That is, a B/W film which gives a reversal image without requiring a reversal process (bleach, re-exposure, etc). I think Agfa "Dia-Direct" (ISO 32) did this in the past.
Nobody is making such a film and I bet that if you can keep the speed 'usable', that is, at least ISO 25, it could be a great alternative to us who want to do B/W reversal but with simpler development. In 120 medium format or in large format this should give BEAUTIFUL, impressive results.
PS: To Mirko,
If i can make a wish, it would be for Adox to release a "Direct Reversal"-type film. That is, a B/W film which gives a reversal image without requiring a reversal process (bleach, re-exposure, etc). I think Agfa "Dia-Direct" (ISO 32) did this in the past.
The theory behind, if i understood correctly, is similar to solarization but in a controlled way: Additional incoming photons 'destroy' the silver and prevents it from developing, thus, white light gives no developed silver and low light gives developed silver (= BLACK).
Nobody is making such a film and I bet that if you can keep the speed 'usable', that is, at least ISO 25, it could be a great alternative to us who want to do B/W reversal but with simpler development. In 120 medium format or in large format this should give BEAUTIFUL, impressive results.
Instead of waiting, you can use right now the Ilford SFX film.
If you had done that, you'd be now a master of it instead of moaning about discontinued films that will not be coming back anytime soon.
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