Pentaxuser, for Gawd sake, let it go. Stop spending bandwidth on speculating. Whether you make sense of the pricing or reintroduction of Acros does not matter. Fuji does not care if their record fills you with confidence. The market will ultimately decide if the new product is successful. Go take some photographs with some Acros.
Kodachromeguy, if you don't like my speculative questions on Fuji's actions that cause me to wonder what lay behind the whole matter of dropping Acros then restarting Acros and the resulting price increase then I respectfully suggest you stop reading them.
Henning, I've been watching that subforum over the last three months but your complete report has not yet appeared. Can you estimate when it might be posted? I'm very interested to learn what you found about ACROS II's characteristic curve in the high value region and how it might vary depending on developer. Thank you very much in advance.
Those are my sentiments as well. No surprise there if you have read any of my posts
but clearly we have members here who do not share those sentiments. However in terms of numbers those members are few in number on a statistical basis as will always be the case in the grand scheme of "things consumer" so that means nothing. The key question is how many of new Acros II potential buyers share our sentiments? Time will tell
Not sure if this is much better, but Glass Key in San Francisco sells it for $9.99.
It was advertised at £1.75 for a 120 roll in December 2007 and was then cheaper than Ilford and Kodak by quite a bit. The rate of inflation since then in the U.K. means that it should now be about £2.50
So £5.00 is twice the rate of inflation which reflects roughly where Ilford films are now. Some and maybe even me might be prepared to pay £6 for the occasional Acros roll but even if I could get it at the cheapest someone here on Photrio has found it in the U.S. this is still more than the equivalent of £8 in the U.K.
So I guess you guys all approved of Japanese companies dumping product, eh?
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Exactly one month later, we finally had a day completely clear of clouds to expose the film. I processed it and am extraordinarily pleased. Developed in Perceptol 1+1 for 8 minutes 30 seconds at 74 degrees F, plunging the loaded reel directly into developer, agitating continuously for the first minute, then five seconds at the start of each subsequent minute, results were fb-f of 0.25, EI of 100 and Contrast Index of 0.52. Grain is nearly invisible and, while I didn't photograph an Edmunds chart (nor are the half-century-old Olympus camera and lens capable of ultra-high resolution), examining the few frames of outdoor scenes I did expose reveals very good sharpness and acutance. A characteristic curve is included here, with horizontal axis numbers representing zones I through X. I didn't go past zone X, but measured the fully exposed leader end. DMax was 2.80.
That leaves more for me.
That leaves more for me.
I've not performed apples-to-apples comparisons in 35mm. However, based on recent experience with 120 versions of those Kodak and Ilford films, I'd say ACROS II is finer-grained, exhibits higher acutance/sharpness and, obviously, blows them away in avoiding reciprocity failure. I also like the ACROS II better in terms of curve shape.
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