I almost feel like its the nature of the type of film that beat it... Because you don't shoot models with it (as far as I understand its still more of a landscape film) so you usually have a tripod anyway, so why use a grainier (even if it wasn't bad) film when you can just use Velvia or Provia 100f?
That's probably why it didn't last, it was the application that killed it. If Astia had stuck around and there were an Astia400, that would probably have sold more as its good for skin tones (I'm told Astia was best for skin so in this example Astia400 would be good for skin too).
There is no doubt in my mind that Provia 400X and Neopan 400 are gone world wide.
Many years ago I regularly shot the Provia 100 (no 'F') with a pale amber filter; for people photography (which was my interest so many years ago) I like the effect better with a bit of warmth added.
There was a thread here on APUG last year that bemoaned the odd colour of 400X in artificial light, a sort of "Instagram-look". I remember viewing the pics and thinking they looked very antique by the palette alone. Who posted that thread??
I work in a lab, with dip and dunk E-6. I also participate in group film orders from B&H.
400X is one of the rarest films to come here for processing, and on group orders from B&H also. We get more Kodak E-6 still than 400X.
Same with Neopan 400 for B&W.
$16/a roll here in the US. No wonder nobody buys it. Great film though.
I really only shoot transparency in 35mm for projection. B&W and color print in 120 and 4x5. I do shoot print film in 35mm too when lighter quicker handling cameras, zoom lenses or faster lenses than I have in 120 are needed.
I'm probably going to pick up some 400X in 120 but other than the fact I won't be able to layer I really don't know why!
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And WOW Australia film prices are just silly, I would probably quit film at those prices, that's 5 times the price of some films here...
I just want to see my chromes on a light box in 4x5...I could stare for hours...
Also Roger I picked up an Agfa super slide projector at a good will but it was missing the tray, I think I remember hearing you discuss them, do you have any extra trays? It's a line tray instead of a circular one as far as I can tell.
And WOW Australia film prices are just silly, I would probably quit film at those prices, that's 5 times the price of some films here...
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Nope, no spare trays. I had an old...forget the brand, but a projector I had in high school when I couldn't afford a Kodak, that used straight trays, but it's long gone or buried in my parents' basement in TN. I have a Medalist projector and some carousel trays, but I use those. I don't have a medium format projector. I think "super slides" where slides nearly 2" square that were shot on medium format and mounted in mounts with thin margins for projection in 35mm projectors. I've never seen one or used them, but I would get a medium format projector IF the film weren't going away. 6x6 or even 6x4.5 slides have to be awesome (6x7 even more so, but then the projector price and rarity goes up a great deal.)
Why do you say MF is "going away"?
I have a bunch of 6x6 slide mounts but I'm hesitant to cut the 6x7 images since they all look better in that ratio than in 6x6
Oh well, I'll keep looking
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Think what you like but we are now down to three currently produced emulsions or, more accurately, TWO films, one of which comes in two speeds - Velvia 50 and 100 and Provia 100.
In 2010 when I was doing my "farewell to Kodachrome" I moved on to Astia, which was then canceled. Then I moved to E100G, the Kodak quit making all E6 films. Now Fuji has dropped Provia 400X.
It takes a monumental effort at whistling past the graveyard not to acknowledge that E6 has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
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It takes a monumental effort at whistling past the graveyard not to acknowledge that E6 has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
We've been hearing "E6 is dead!" for like the last 10 years now. Personally I think it's an incredibly beautiful medium and more people should be using it for color. I shoot it in every format I use, along with c-41, and b/w.
It takes a monumental effort at whistling past the graveyard not to acknowledge that E6 has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
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