I shot a few rolls of Orwo UT18 slide film in the 1970's it was a quirky contrasty film. Did they ever make C41 or E6 compatible films ?
Ian
They DID make the change. It was long planned but realized only in C-41 in 1988 and in production in 4 types up to 1995.
Though they never made E-6 films.
Yes, of course. But as main name Orwocolor remained.
Keep in mind that Agfa in Wolfen marketed over the years more than 50 colour still films, each with an own designation.
Orwo Color QRS 100 was an end of line C-41 process film
Example from sale details here- https://www.etsy.com/listing/846601143/expired-orwo-color-qrs-100-35mm-camera
Seems to be the only speed it was produced in
Orwo Color QRS 100 was an end of line C-41 process film
Example from sale details here- https://www.etsy.com/listing/846601143/expired-orwo-color-qrs-100-35mm-camera
Seems to be the only speed it was produced in
Given the apparent sole basis for this rumor, I have serious doubts Filmotec is aware of it. Perhaps they are. Let's see when ORWONA one-man show updates his website with N75 availability, which it has been for a quite a few months now. I'd be suspicious of a source that does not know current line of products predicting non-existing ones.I saw this and thought it was an interesting read.
https://kosmofoto.com/2020/11/orwo-planning-return-to-colour-film-production/
Orwo Color QRS 100 was an end of line C-41 process film
Example from sale details here- https://www.etsy.com/listing/846601143/expired-orwo-color-qrs-100-35mm-camera
Seems to be the only speed it was produced in
Yes, the reunification crash and its preceding industiral mayhem when Zeiss.Jena fadded out . .ORWO was a successor to AG Farben, does anyone know what became of them at the time when Bitterfelds chemical waste soup was being cleared away?Thank you for the link. Interesting that they have DX coded cassettes and the sealed foil packing. In other cases they had the film boxed. I see Made in Germany on the packing so made after the GDR/DDR was dissolved.
Thank you for the link. Interesting that they have DX coded cassettes and the sealed foil packing. In other cases they had the film boxed. I see Made in Germany on the packing so made after the GDR/DDR was dissolved.
Orwo is interested in a living cine market. That Agfa not that long ago left the cine print film market is telling. And there has not been a rise in this market since then.And more than likely a choice of a derivation of Optima, Portrait or Ultra. I'd be considerably more surprised if they launched an ECN-2 film for cinema, given that Agfa got out of that market in the early 1990s. Of course, it may be that it's going to be a cinema print/ lab film, which Agfa produced until much more recently - given that that market seems to be of considerable interest to Orwo already.
I always liked the AGFA cinema Camera Negative film, BUT I am not sure if the technology for that is still held in Belgum, remember that Agfa Photo only had consumer products technology. And Filmotec has up till now concentrated on strictly Motion Picture stock. it would take a fair bit of "twisting" to get a Still Film formula to work well with ECN-2 Processing. (even if they took a shortcut and used a Still Film style Anti-Halo undercoat layer rather than a REM_Jet style layer)
let me put it this way, I would not be holding my breath.
Rem-Jet is already in first instance on wrong position to be the most effective AH-means. The only benefitial characteristic it got is its wide spectral repression. But to my knowledge that was never exploited.Remjet is the easiest anti-hal layer of the lot to enact, yet one of the most effective - if it wasn't so troublesome to remove, I'd bet that it would be used on still film much more widely.
This is the old story of Agfa in Mortsel not being able to make colour films. Those colour films were coated in Mortsel.
Rem-Jet is already in first instance on wrong position to be the most effective AH-means. The only benefitial characteristic it got is its wide spectral repression. But to my knowledge that was never exploited.
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