Agfa AP-41 Film in Rodinal?

[AveryMiller]

Hello!
I recently stumbled across a pretty good deal for some expired Agfachrome 50S. Agfachrome 50S uses now rare AP-41 chemicals, and doesn't produce any results in either C41 or E6.
I've heard some people speculate that a black and white developer should produce pictures, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has tried it. I wanted to hear if anyone who understands film chemistry more than me has any insight. Thanks!

 

[mohmad khatab]

Hello!
I recently stumbled across a pretty good deal for some expired Agfachrome 50S. Agfachrome 50S uses now rare AP-41 chemicals, and doesn't produce any results in either C41 or E6.
I've heard some people speculate that a black and white developer should produce pictures, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has tried it. I wanted to hear if anyone who understands film chemistry more than me has any insight. Thanks!

I'm a fan of AP-41

 

[gone]

I've been doing a lot of reading on this, and it seems that no one has tried Rodinal. Oh, a lot of people have threatened to use it out of desperation, but I have not been able to find anyone that actually tried it.

 

[foc]

Yes you are correct, the Agfa AP41 was their colour transparency process before they changed in the mid 1980s to the same process as Kodak E6.
IIRC the Ap41 process temperature was around 25C and anything hot, like C41 or E6 at 38C would melt the film emulsion.

Here is a link that might be helpful by someone that developed Agfa CT18 (an AP41 film) in B&W chemicals.
http://petrifiedmusephotography.net/2018/06/26/shooting-on-and-developing-expired-agfa-ct18/

 

[mohmad khatab]

I always use the process (AP.41),
I prepare the chemistry of this process from scratch myself.
Maybe you can get a powder kit of that chemistry from ebay, I really don't know.
In case you can't find it on eBay.
If you do not have experience in preparing photographic chemistry from scratch, I advise you to dismiss the matter as a whole.
It is a process that requires a lot of effort and a huge mental focus, but its results are very impressive,
These pictures are results from a Fuji Provia roll that I developed last year.
Scanning was done at that time by Flash Scan.
According to my humble experience,
If you have a deal of Agfachrome 50S Rolls.
I don't think it's worth all the suffering.
You can only use it in black and white
- Take a picture of this roll on the basis that it is ISO 6 and develop it according to the double formula that I attached to you in the pictures, it will produce you images that are balanced to a large extent,,

 

[Paul Howell]

You might find a GAF slide kit, I think (?) it is same chemistry.

 

[mohmad khatab]

You might find a GAF slide kit, I think (?) it is same chemistry.

GAF
Actually I am not sure.
Probably .
Anyway, I made this kit from scratch.