Agfa Isopan 125 ASA

Roundabout · Jan 14, 2014

Someone has given me a 35mm roll of Agfa Isopan 125ASA, from the 'mid 1980s'.

That's all I know about it.

I don't develop my own film, so I'm pretty much going to have to do my best at the camera end of things. Any tips?

Thanks

Xmas · Jan 14, 2014

Don't open the box put it on ebay.

gone · Jan 14, 2014

Good advice. You have no way of knowing how it has been stored, and even in ideal storage conditions, it's still 35 years past the expiration date!

Richard S. (rich815) · Jan 14, 2014

If money is important sure sell it. If not and you're curious shoot it. I got a hold of some Agfapan 25 in 120 with expiration of early 80's. (yes, Agfapan not APX). I shoot it at 12 and it's terrific. Still have a few rolls in the freezer too.

Golden Gate Park fern grove Rolleiwide Agfapan25 HC-110dilH 9min30sec 21C 1minAg2x 05-2012 VSmac 9000 Scan-120531-0002 FFw by rich8155 (Richard Sintchak), on Flickr

Jeff Kubach · Jan 14, 2014

Richard Sintchak (rich815) said:
If money is important sure sell it. If not and you're curious shoot it. I got a hold of some Agfapan 25 in 120 with expiration of early 80's. (yes, Agfapan not APX). I shoot it at 12 and it's terrific. Still have a few rolls in the freezer too.

Golden Gate Park fern grove Rolleiwide Agfapan25 HC-110dilH 9min30sec 21C 1minAg2x 05-2012 VSmac 9000 Scan-120531-0002 FFw by rich8155 (Richard Sintchak), on Flickr

Great picture!

Jeff

Axle · Jan 14, 2014

Don't sell it...shoot and send it over to thedarkroom.com the boys there will be able to process it no worries for you!

StoneNYC · Jan 14, 2014

Rule of thumb. 1 stop speed loss for every 10 years, so if it's 125 ASA in the 80's, 64 ASA in the 90's, 32 ASA in the 2000's so 12 ASA sounds right for 2010... However I've found that past the 30 year mark the speed loss slows down itself (the oldest I've done is 1947 shot and dev'd in 2013) so I would suggest shooting an EI 32 in the sun(or with flash), and EI 12 in the shade. And develop as normal (hopefully the lab will be able to pull up times for the film).

Roundabout · Jan 14, 2014

Thanks for that.

I'm going to shoot it, as that's what it's for.

We'll see what happens.

Richard S. (rich815) · Jan 14, 2014

Jeff Kubach said:
Great picture!

Jeff

Thanks Jeff.

Roundabout · Jun 9, 2015

Well, I finally shot the film (at 25 ISO) and got the film developed. Loads of fog and very dark negs. I'll post up some pics, if I can get a half decent scan out of any of them.

AgX · Jun 9, 2015

Roundabout said:
Someone has given me a 35mm roll of Agfa Isopan 125ASA, from the 'mid 1980s'.

In the 80s Agfapan already was introduced, thus your film likely is older.

Roundabout · Jun 9, 2015

The box seems to say Jan 83 on it, embossed (although there are some digits before that). I'm guessing that's that date?

Roundabout · Jun 9, 2015

I've done a fair bit of post-processing on this, including upping the contrast at the end, to get some definition in the image.

Roundabout · Jun 9, 2015

Probably as good as I have managed to get. I think the inner part of the film survived better.

AgX · Jun 9, 2015

There was a time when Agfa (and other manufacturers) did not explan that date on the box.

In the late 70s Agfa started to explain it on the box as "process before" date.

Roundabout · Jun 13, 2015

Some more pics with this Dead Link Removed: http://www.crunchyspaces.com/content/expired-agfa-isopan-125/

Richard S. (rich815) · Jun 13, 2015

Looks a lot like the HP3 I have from July 1963, which I shot at 12!

Roundabout · Jun 14, 2015

Richard Sintchak (rich815) said:
Looks a lot like the HP3 I have from July 1963, which I shot at 12!

That's about 20 years earlier than the Isopan, so pretty good that you managed to get any image out of it.

Richard S. (rich815) · Jun 14, 2015

Roundabout said:
That's about 20 years earlier than the Isopan, so pretty good that you managed to get any image out of it.

Just reviewed some again, came out better than I remembered actually :

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