mooseontheloose
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Bellamy from Japan Camera Hunter is now offering a new film, basically a revived AGFA surveillance film. It will only be available in Japan, but he'll ship worldwide. He's currently taking pre-orders with a projected ship date for the summer.
From the comments on his website:
Comment: Agfa Aviphot Pan 400S, right? Still being made but no longer sold as an Agfa retail product. At this price point, I’ll stick with Kodak materials, thanks.
JCH: No, it isn’t. This is an older discontinued film. I would love to make it cheaper, but seeing as I am not Kodak it is hard to find the money to do so.
I'll admit the price is probably too high for most people, but for those of us in Japan, the cost for one roll of 35mm film (975 yen) is around the same price as similar offerings (Tri-X 937 yen, HP5+ 1010 yen, Rollei Retro 400s 896 yen) - film is not cheap here by any means.
Also RPX 400 looks like it could be #3 as well...
I'll admit the price is probably too high for most people, but for those of us in Japan, the cost for one roll of 35mm film (975 yen) is around the same price as similar offerings (Tri-X 937 yen, HP5+ 1010 yen, Rollei Retro 400s 896 yen) - film is not cheap here by any means.
Henning, are you sure that all those films you mentioned are the same?
I've done some digging, and the spectral sensitivity curves don't look the same on the data sheets I found.
Hi Rachelle,
you can get Rollei Retro 400S for only 550 Yen per roll in Japan from Silversalt:
http://www.silversalt.jp/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_2&products_id=109
Best regards,
Henning
How can you know for certain that this is not the same emulsion recipe recently poured and slitted for Bellamy? So it could very well be a *new* fresh film.
My understanding is that the raw emulsion components can be kept and then poured on demand for a master roll, and that is what I think is more likely that Bellamy did.
Not to hijack this thread, but based on your tests, does this film have any more infrared sensitivity than Ilford SFX?
. So no, Retro 400S and RPX400 are not the same. IIRC its a rebadge of the Kentmere 400.
Well we either believe the former Simon Galley or not or we believe that now Ilford/Harman has been taken over by Pemberstone, the policy has changed but just to repeat what S Galley said on several occasions: Ilford does not re-badge its films of which Kentmere is one.
pentaxuser
When Kentmere was Kentmere it only made paper as far as I know. When Kentmere was incorporated into Harman a range of films called Kentmere was introduced by Harman. These were not films commissioned by another manufacturerTo be honest, I only remember him saying that they won't rebrand Ilford films, I don't remember anything about Kentmere. You can also read some interesting details about another reincarnation here: https://www.fotoimpex.de/shopen/films/fotoimpex-chm-400-13536.html
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