UltraFine Color Film 100

[George Mann]

Has anyone used this film yet? What does it look like?.

http://www.ultrafineonline.com/ul35x12excof.html

 

[Berri]

looks like old stuff. For that price I'd buy ektar

 

[George Mann]

looks like old stuff. For that price I'd buy ektar

I like "old stuff" when it's good, but where can one buy Ektar for $1.89?

 

[jim10219]

It's only 12 exposures per roll. That's $0.16 a shot (not including shipping). Ektar 100 has 36 exposures per roll. That's around $0.19 a shot, not including shipping. Then, when you develop it, you'll pay by the roll, so it'll cost 3x's as much to develop as Ektar. So Ektar is probably going to be cheaper in the long run.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

I like "old stuff" when it's good, but where can one buy Ektar for $1.89?

So just buy a roll and answer your question.

 

[P.johnson14]

I've used some as a test rolls when I wanted some short ends to test some cameras with and was too lazy to make them myself. Wasn't good enough to test the cameras with. If you want the lomo look in a different emulsion, give them a try. Otherwise not worth it to me.

 

[George Mann]

I've used some as a test rolls when I wanted some short ends to test some cameras with and was too lazy to make them myself. Wasn't good enough to test the cameras with. If you want the lomo look in a different emulsion, give them a try. Otherwise not worth it to me.

That's surprising given how good their B&W offering is.

 

[P.johnson14]

That's why I tried it.

 

[trendland]

Has anyone used this film yet? What does it look like?.

http://www.ultrafineonline.com/ul35x12excof.html

It you like emulsions with color shifts (expired stuff with unclear storage history) .....It can be your "Deal of the month"
with regards
PS: It is an amateuric version of agfa vista with 12 exposures.I own a couple of Agfa Portrait 160 (135-12) such boxes were sold years ago in 50 pc. packaging at about 15 bucks if I remember correct. They might make sense from following perspectives :
1) you indeed need short ends in still photograpy sometimes. ....
2) you have stuff with guarantee : not longer expired than 2 - 3 years (in case of Agfa = not much more stable).....Fuji is still ok then ...
3) you can freeze your films
4) you can develope your films at home (c41 kit)
5) you can wait with your developement so long that it is possible to develope some films with just one run.

 

[George Mann]

I will stick with ColorPlus then. Thanks guys.

 

[trendland]

I will stick with ColorPlus then. Thanks guys.

Color Plus is just great in comparison (as a cheap film for normal use) old agfa vista stuff is not as great. Since many years Vista is coming from Fuji (C200 - Superia?)With extreme luck the film you are asking is not from old Agfa stuff? There are some of long discontinied Fuji films still in the market - see :

This might probably also the film you asked - but who can say how the condition of this emulsion is? It is a little disadvantage of 135-12 remaining from my point.
Good luck

PS : A much cheaper price would make this indeed more interisting.
As I reported 50 rolls at about 17 bucks!

.......but also this makes just sense with self developing if you run 2 rolls at one time together ......

 

[George Mann]

PS : A much cheaper price would make this indeed more interisting.
As I reported 50 rolls at about 17 bucks!

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Where does one find this deal?

 

[trendland]

Well I find this cheap offer month after Agfas buncoptcy around the year 2008 ? So I ordered 200 films - the half was expired 18 month the other films were 11 month expired but my local dealer sayed :"They were stored in climated condition and "MAY" be just ok" - he was correct. The Agfa Portrait 160 was a professional film - so my conclusion was : It was just a misstake from Agfa to sell this film as 135-12. My dealer was able to offer me more.He had hundred of such 50x boxes.
Since 2009 I freezed this film.
But they are still fine today.
with regards

PS : A film in the near of 30cent make just 1 buck/36 frames but it realy makes no sense to give it in a lab.........I was able to understand within the next 10 seconds as I find this cheap offered films.

 

[trendland]

Oh - I forget to state : You may find this boxes today on ebay sometimes.But I would not give my money for such deals. I would not wonder about if ebay sellers double the price (or more) and if this films are min. expired around 12 years meanwhile and have seen no freezer within just 5 years you can forget the colors. Some single films I take out of my freezer for shootings and don't have freezed them again survived around 5 years. After this color shifts began.
with regards

PS: Your offered film seams to be the original Fuji from picture above.In case of Fuji I would give min. 7 - 8 years of stable colors without freezing. (but stored in condition with "cool" temperature) from my experience. AGFA seams generally be not as stable as Fuji.

 

[Agulliver]

Agfa XPS 160.....A couple of years ago I dug a camera out of a box in my garage which had a part exposed roll of this. It had been in the garage 12 years. I finished off the film and had it processed....the first 5 exposures (from 2004) were OK but had colour casts on them from age. The photos shot in 2016 were very good. Conditions in the garage are far from ideal, it gets extremely hot in there in the summer and cold in winter. The storage box may have protected the film from the worst of the humidity we occasionally get.

 

[trendland]

Yeah - it is very hard to say how long c41 films will hold their original fine characteristics after their official expiration with the date given onto the package. It depends - sometimes it is just going about luck or bad luck. In general you will only have some month with normal storage (household conditions) after this - the final aging will begin and will change different parameters of an emulsion - just from my point.But the issue often is : when does these changings began to be noticable (outside "normal tollerances" every film is designed with). In case of Fuji I know a couple examples where you have a lost of saturation quite evenly. So you got little pale colors without real shifts from the beginning and this will work quite a long time - then you have real shifts. I made experience with fresh Agfa CT 100 (original Agfa stuff 2002) with massive shifts (extreme greenish cast) - these "fresh" films can't have been expired (within the guarantee) but the reason may have been on hot temperatures in summer. Bad luck....

I would not explicide hold the focus on color shifts with bad (long) stored films. Other characteristics are coming worst but we often can not notice it in a good way (like with color shifts) - so films becomes generally more grainy - that seams to began direct after manufacturers guarantee .....more and more and more



with regards