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Rera Chrome 100: a new type 127 film

I don't know of any current E-6 film on PET-base other than the Agfa Aviphot Chrome.
 
Those extra large slides are wonderful but at $16.50 plus shipping per roll......
That's a little steep for only 8 shots
 
AgX said:
I don't know of any current E-6 film on PET-base other than the Agfa Aviphot Chrome.
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Rudeofus said:
The only current Fuji color reversal product using polyester base is Velvia sheet film, which tells me that Rerachrome must have been cut from a sheet film master roll.
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I forgot about that very Fuji sheet film.
 
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This sounds very logical, but on his web site describing the film, http://kawauso.biz/products/detail.php?product_id=1033 he shows two sample images, and says the film tends to strengthen yellow colours, and may be unsuitable for flowers and landscapes. That sounds just like Agfa Aviphot, and not at all like Velvia. Except that Aviphot is ISO 200, not the ISO 100 he quotes.
So there still seems to be some mystery as to the source.
 
I bought two rolls to try. They are marked "Assembled in Japan", which suggests that the film is not made in Japan. The processed film has a distinct yellow cast, as I usually get with Agfa Aviphot (whoever sells it, Maco Rollei CR200, Maco Crossbird, Wittner). It looked nothing like a Fuji slide film. So my suggestion is that this is Aviphot bought in bulk from Agfa, and cut down and packaged by Kawauso in Japan. Some of my frames were overexposed, but not all, so I am not sure whether his version really is ISO 100.
 
As far as I remember you are the first to report here a yellow cast of the Avichrome converted by Wittner.
 
AgX said:
As far as I remember you are the first to report here a yellow cast of the Avichrome converted by Wittner.
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It was not my intention to criticise Wittnerchrome - I was reporting only that I personally get a yellow cast on it as well as on Rolleichrome and that therefore I think Rerachrome which I found to be similar may well be Aviphot.

The first reference I remember about Wittnerchrome yellowing was in August 2013: There was only one follow-up, so I assume that few if any other people find it. Certainly when I bought 5 rolls, the first two I used were wonderfully free of yellow cast, but when I shot the others later a little yellow crept in - though certainly nothing like the yellow I have had on some rolls from Maco. After 5 years of trying Aviphot in various versions I still usually get yellowing, but maybe that is my fault, and I think that topic is best left to the thread in which the above post is found.

I repeat, I was not criticising Wittnerchrome. I like it.
 
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Thanks for the feedback. Looks like I'll be sticking to cutting down 120 Fuji (and at some point Ferrania) when I want to shoot a roll of super slides for now. I appreciate the availability of the product, but the "nostalgic golden" tones of Aviphot are not what I'm typically looking for.
 
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