Agfaphoto CT Precisa 100

mauro35 · Sep 24, 2013

Hello APUGers,

I recently bought a few rolls of Agfa Precisa color positive film and was wondering what you think about it. Do you have any suggestions/opinions how to get the best out of it? I have very little experience with slides and my first attempts with Fuji Velvia were quite hopeless. I am so used to color negative I can' t live without that wonderfully huge dynamic range and ended up with blown highlights and blocked shadows. But I was thinking to give myself a second try with a less contrasty film. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Mauro

Roger Cole · Sep 24, 2013

It's Fuji Provia 100. You'll find it lower contrast and wider range than Velvia but still nothing like neg film (or the late, lamented Astia )

You just have to get used to the range of it and expose for what's important to the photo if you can't control the lighting.

filmamigo · Sep 24, 2013

I haven't used the Precisa. But I can say that my most successful slides were when I embraced the idea of blown highlights and blocked shadows. By considering where to place that narrow window of three or four stops of good image exposure, you can choose to strategically employ those pure blacks or blown highlights. You can hide details that you don't want in the frame by letting them fall into blackness or whiteness, and you can work with the graphic nature of pure shadow. There is a character to the blacks on reversal film which is quite unlike anything else. When I switched from slides to neg, that was the hardest change -- losing those lustrustrous inky blacks.

mauro35 · Sep 25, 2013

Thank you both for your replies. I will take some time to get used to a different approach. Very inspiring what filmamigo is suggesting, I never thought about it that way.
I´m going to post some results and will be glad to get more comments then.

epp · Sep 25, 2013

Roger Cole said:
It's Fuji Provia 100. You'll find it lower contrast and wider range than Velvia but still nothing like neg film (or the late, lamented Astia )

You just have to get used to the range of it and expose for what's important to the photo if you can't control the lighting.

Is Fujifilm manufacturing it (and perhaps all films) for AgfaPhoto/Lupus Media??

AgX · Sep 25, 2013

AgfaPhoto/Lupus used different manufacturers for their films. Fuji is one of them. So far there had not been an indication that special emulsions were used, but seemingly simple re-branding was employed.

Of course in the beginning they could use the outcome of their own short production fase or stock inherited with the buy of those Agfa assets.

Ricardo Miranda · Sep 27, 2013

At present time, all colour negative and positive AgfaPhoto films are made by Fuji under contract to Lupus Imaging.

epp · Sep 27, 2013

AgX said:
AgfaPhoto/Lupus used different manufacturers for their films. Fuji is one of them. So far there had not been an indication that special emulsions were used, but seemingly simple re-branding was employed.

Of course in the beginning they could use the outcome of their own short production fase or stock inherited with the buy of those Agfa assets.

Thank you.

The AgfaPhoto color print/negative films, I haven't seen for sale locally. The last time I saw anything Agfa for sale around here, was when Agfa-Gevaert itself had owned the division. At one time, they also manufactured Walgreen's-branded color print films for the Walgreen's pharmacy chain in the U.S.

Pedro Pinto Basto · Oct 14, 2017

Hi guys,

I'm thinking making one endless projection with a slide projector (endless like 8 hours). I read that the best films for that are the AGFAPHOTO CT .
It has to be a reverse color film to be projected, and the slides has to be with the best durability so the projection can last longer with the slides in good conditions.

Do you agree that there is the best film for endlles projection?

Kind regards.

BMbikerider · Oct 14, 2017

Ricardo Miranda said:
At present time, all colour negative and positive Agfa Photo films are made by Fuji under contract to Lupus Imaging.

If you look at a cassette of film, below the lips where the film comes out there are a series on numbers in small fonts. This is a unique number to that film and even whether a 24 or 36 exp cassette it will be different. You will find that if you compare the Agfa Precisa film 36 exp with the Fuji Provia 36 exp the cassettes bear the same number. Likewise, the Agfa 200iso C41 film has the same number as the Fuji CN200. That of Superia is a different number.

Svenedin · Oct 14, 2017

I’ve used this film and I’ve been pleased with it. It’s good value. Exposing positive film correctly is tricky. Sometimes the dynamic range of a scene is beyond what the film is capable of so if you are disappointed it isn’t your fault.

trendland · Oct 21, 2017

Svenedin said:
I’ve used this film and I’ve been pleased with it. It’s good value. Exposing positive film correctly is tricky. Sometimes the dynamic range of a scene is beyond what the film is capable of so if you are disappointed it isn’t your fault.

Yes Svenedin you possible not know the original Agfa CT Precisa.......!
This emulsion with the exactly name was
manufactured from Agfa some years ago!
It was not a bad emulsion I have shot nice slides with it.
It was definitivly the most best film ever
in comparison to Agfa CT 18 (out of the 80th)
But let me say in short : The new Agfa from Fuji is the better film !
Sade is to see its pricing today : 3 x higher in comparison to 6 years ago!

with regards

Agfaphoto CT Precisa 100

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