Curt
That's interesting but.... drum roll.... Why? It's too cryptic for the mass crowd to understand, and what does it mean to the rest of us. Give an explanation or you view if you will.
After demise of Agfa, Toronto got a lot of (probably) last batch of APX 100 and 400. I got two rolls to try and was surprised how good is APX100. So what is (was) good?
Density-exposure curve was less curved than other films I use from ilford, which gives more details in shades because of lower slope of the curve in shaded area, especially important for high quality lenses for 35 and 67 format, and high acutance developers. For portrait work, colors reproduction were just better than D100, black and caucasian skin is darker, lips (red) darker, just when use light blue filter with D100…. Highlights on hears were very nice because of crisp grain which also do not make every hear to be visible. Separation between colors on Gretag patch was very good,… Grain is surprisingly small and uniform (dev in Rodinal 1:50) but very crisp on prints, which I like too, especially in blurred area (areas not in focus) which add drama and story and to parts without details and so connects just all parts of a photograph into one whole. This works and even with smiling face... The only problem, if problem at all, is that nor under 6 bricks the film will not get flat.
After try with APX100 I got some APX400 and found that density-exposure curve is just plane straight line from –3 up to +3.5. Unbelievable, but nearly no knee in shade, and story from APX100 apply and here.
I got some stock of APX100 and 400. But 400 film cannot be stored for long even 7 ft under. Just when decided to get some more APX figured out they GONE for ever.
So that is we lost for ever. I beleive that some, like Henrys, still list the films on internet, just because they do not update it daily. I visited the stores these days and no APX in stock, as the girl student after search around said. Rolley might be deliver it but they are no more in production so expiration date can matter.
Again, guys that used and knows qualities of the APX films know very well what I talk about. And this is my last comment on these films, live long ilford.
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