Agfa Vista 200?

[jay moussy]

I was given a Promaster 2000PK camera, a Cosina C1, it seems.

In it was an Agfa vista 200 film cartridge, with DX encoding.
When was that film last made?
It says Process AP70/C41. What is AP70?

The camera: plastics!
Also a huge Tamron 28-300 LD AF zoom... why bother fitting such a lens on there?

 

[AgX]

AP 70 was Agfa's designation for their colour negative process, which was complementary to Kodak's C-41.

 

[Ernst-Jan]

CN16/AP70/C41 it is all the same.

 

[Paul Howell]

The camera: plastics!
Also a huge Tamron 28-300 LD AF zoom... why bother fitting such a lens on there?[/QUOTE]

The lens is not so bad, of course a super zoom, I assume it a Pentax KAF, later modes are VR with internal focusing and pretty good MC, gets over all good reviews, makes a fine travel lens.

 

[gone]

There were a lot of rebranded versions of that film, which is unfortunate because the original was a great film. The imitations aren't the same. Most are labeled "Made In Japan", and I think it was Fuji film. Ck your cartridge to see how it's labeled.

 

[jay moussy]

It is labeled "Agfa-Geavaert made in Germany"

Other: Camera was given to me by the widow of an inventive gentleman, apparently, so I was surprised to get a Promaster... even though the camera seems to just tick away! Maybe he was a frugal Yankee and there was no need to spend much on cameras?

 

[AgX]

It is labeled "Agfa-Gevaert made in Germany"

Yes of course, all their consumer films were made in Germany. In Belgium only their non-consumer films were made.
But your remark is important to exclude those rebranded films that later AgfaPhoto bought from two manufacturers to rebrand them as Vista.

 

[cmacd123]

It is labeled "Agfa-Geavaert made in Germany"?

oh so the original version. before the consumer film business was spun off.
then their was "agfa Photo" with a rombus, then Agfa Photo with a dot, then Agfa Photo- made in Japan.

 

[AgX]

then their was "agfa Photo" with a rombus, then Agfa Photo with a dot, then Agfa Photo- made in Japan.

No, the rhombus is a Agfa logo NOT licenced to AgfaPhoto. AgfaPhoto used a dot as logo from the start.

(At the creation of and take over by AgfaPhoto there may have been stock in production that were still packaged in the original Agfa cassettes and boxes when the business was already owned by AgfaPhoto.)

 

[lantau]

The Leverkusen plant was closed in 2005. This is the last year that film could have been coated.

 

[Agulliver]

I've recently finished shooting some rolls of the genuine Agfa Vista 200 which expired in 2004, so presumably left the factory in 2001 or 2002. My local camera shop had a couple of hundred rolls in their basement storage, unusual 15 exposure 35mm rolls. And it performed really well, so this film certainly can be usable many years after it expired.

Nice film. I miss it.