Agfa Avicolor x100 discontinued!

X100 and x400 are agfa avicolor films in sizes 70mm, 126mm and 240mm
now i see x100 is discontinued.
http://www.agfa.com/sp/global/en/in...services/all_products/aviphotcolor_chrome.jsp
special about these films is: no mask, most ideal for scanning and b+w pictures. and special filter built-in to get good greens.
x100 was very contrasty for higher altitude.
x400 is sharp enough, i have used n400 for aerial shooting. avicolor films are said to be very good for push and pull-processing.
datasheet:
http://www.agfa.com/sp/global/en/binaries/AVIPHOT COLOR X400_tcm611-42589.pdf
i once made a big mistake using kodak vericolor III for aerial shooting. that film is matching greens very badly.....
and i also made a big mistake in pulling kodak vericolor HC.
reason was i checked contact copies made on bubblejet copier which produce very contrasty results. now i am cured about this.
n400 used here: fantastic rendering and supersharp
http://www.stereopan.tk or the other version here
www.3dreal.ch

I would like to see the sample pics, but the first website you linked to does not work (only shows fishy ads and wants me to click on buttons that do not look kosher at all) and all I can see on the 2nd site are tiny thumbnails with the sky full of heavy artifacts.

That also means that Rollei CN 200 will disappear sooner or later?

Not only this Rollei film will be affected in the future by the current Agfa discontinuations.

yes the digibase 200 IS x100. but x400 will stay thanks to worldwide military and nato supporting agfa to still producing it.
website is working for me in Firefox even with scripts forbidden. noscript-addon
Aviphot Color X100 PE1 (Discontinued): Color negative film without color mask for low, medium and high altitude flights. Suitable for electronic image scanning for the reproduction of clean and saturated colors without additional color correction.
no further informations except x400 above with datasheetlink and chrome 200(discontinued)also with data-sheet.
here is the full copy of content:
Aviphot Color X400 PE1: Panchromatic negative maskless color film with high color saturation, designed for aerial photography from low to medium altitudes. It is also suitable for industrial applications requiring a high speed film whereby images are scanned from the film . This film gives excellent definition and lower granularity than a masked film with the same photographic speed.

Technical datasheet pdf (214 KB)

Aviphot Chrome 200 PE1 (Discontinued): Panchromatic color reversal film, rendeirng a sharp, low grain positive image with natural colors and very good color saturation. Suitable for low to medium altitude flying.

Technical datasheet pdf (175 KB)

Aviphot Color X100 PE1 (Discontinued): Color negative film without color mask for low, medium and high altitude flights. Suitable for electronic image scanning for the reproduction of clean and saturated colors without additional color correction.

europanorama said:

website is working for me in Firefox even with scripts forbidden. noscript-addon

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This is what opens in my browser (firefox 38.0.5) when I click the link in your message to www.stereopan.tk (it redirects to a different site each time I click the link, all of them fishy)

Aviphot Chrome is the Rollei CR200 of which there has been much discussion on this forum. It is also sold my Lomography as their XPRO 200 in 35mm and 120 and Peacock 200 in 110 size. That leaves just Fuji making reversal materials now until Ferrania get things going in Italy.

mnemosyne said:

I would like to see the sample pics, but the first website you linked to does not work (only shows fishy ads and wants me to click on buttons that do not look kosher at all) and all I can see on the 2nd site are tiny thumbnails with the sky full of heavy artifacts.

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Nothing fishy: YES-dont know what happend to 3dreal.tk pls use 3dreal.ch i will change.
1. you need to have ghostery and noscript installed in firefox
2. you must then allow the cookies leading to these links. the two images are on two different image-providers. this will only be changed when i have time setting up new website. lost it when geocities free went offline. didnt want to pay. so these two images are remains. yes i will-show-with HR-scans and crops how good N400 was..one can see fine details of top of europe Jungfraujoch-sphinx. now its the maskless x400(the only one left of the avicolors)

changed now stereopan.org. and 3dreal dot ch. the other ones auschwitzpanorama dot ch
rotapancams dot net login needed all about rotapancams analoge

washi x most probably 35mm version of agfa avicolor x 100. nobody else made maskless CN. 2021 batch. maybe siberra has 120 version made or also 35mm? could be washi has it from them. pity no 70mm anymore or only for military. same behaviour like fuji at theat time 980ties not delivering officially 70mm outside JP. Konica also had a 70mm.

europanorama said:

washi x most probably 35mm version of agfa avicolor x 100. nobody else made maskless CN. 2021 batch. maybe siberra has 120 version made or also 35mm? could be washi has it from them. pity no 70mm anymore or only for military. same behaviour like fuji at theat time 980ties not delivering officially 70mm outside JP. Konica also had a 70mm.

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See Kodak Aerocolor

i am puzzled. why not available in 70mm or 61.5mm longroll? we could then make our own 220 or whatever lenght film. i have a workaround using 61.5mm on 70mm spools. only 3d-printer needed in usa. have one in europe/D. Kodak spool tested with mockup. thicker linhof with slit (no clamp)not yet. there is a similar 35-120-takeup-spool so easily printable.
I think it must be agfa avicolor x-100 since the made a batch in 2021. siberra also has such a film, maybe thanks to them agfa restarted coating and assembling made elsewhere. ilford also assembles fuji-films b+w. or vice-versa- made by ilford and assembled at fuji.

europanorama said:

i am puzzled. why not available in 70mm or 61.5mm longroll?

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Because the aerial film-photography market has drastically shrunk. That is why Agfa and Kodak have been cancelling films and formats there, and both are not resp. not really interested in the consumer market.

maco-direct had a lot of 61.5mm longrolls 12 x 30.5m sizes noncut. I am asking this: do avicolor X100 and aerocolor III or IV show its name. if not it could be they are identical and agfa-gevaert made it. last batch made in 2021. this would explain the large amount of Aerocolor in russia.
maco-direct couldnt doesnt confirm if digibase 200 was avicolor X100. also Washi X from unknown source. does it show more than only no.?

Silberra not Siberra