Who's Shooting the New Gold 200 120 Right Now?

[1kgcoffee]

Still my favourite

 

[Agulliver]

The only reason I haven't bought more Gold 120 is because shortly before I heard it was being launched, I bought a good supply of Lomography branded 100 and 400 colour film in 120. Once that's used up, I'm switching to Gold for 120 general colour photography.

 

[Roger Cole]

I have loaded my first roll today in my RB67. It's going to be a Kodak only weekend: Kodak Gold and Verichrome Pan

Good lord, is surviving Verichrome still good?

That was a fantastic film. I'd love to see it come back but that ranks as just slightly less likely than a Kodachrome revival.

 

[Roger Cole]

Ektar has colours that "pop" like probably no other film in the history of colour negative films. Try photographing flower gardens, colourful animals, and suchlike with Ektar and you may understand why it is special.

Never tried the old Agfa Ultra 50, did you?

I swear I think it was more saturated than Velvia. It made Ektar look pastel. Well, not quite, but it was considerably more saturated than Ektar, and way less accurate which mattered not at all for many subjects it suited and made it unusable for others. It wasn't accurate but it was sure saturated. Not good for people as a rule, but I liked it for certain things (shot a bicycle race with it and it made the jerseys and bikes just explode with color.)

I love Ektar BTW. I'd love to have a 400 speed version of it but these days I'm just happy it exists at all.

I also just noticed that I'd read the date but not the year on the posts I responded to. Well, that really doesn't change anything except, sigh, the prices.

 

[Ernst-Jan]

Good lord, is surviving Verichrome still good?

That was a fantastic film. I'd love to see it come back but that ranks as just slightly less likely than a Kodachrome revival.

That was long ago, like a year. It wasn't that great

 

[Ernst-Jan]

I have shot one box. After that I continued shooting the Pro160NS and 400H I still have. Also I am trying to shoot more slide.

 

[Agulliver]

@Roger Cole I didn't shoot the Agfa Ultra 50. What I recall is Agfa Vista, from the real Agfa before it disappeared and I really liked that. And what came before. I did shoot some Agfa pro colour film of some description in the 90s too.

 

[Moose22]

I shot a couple of rolls last week. They're ready to scan.

I also have 400H and pro160ns in the freezer, and I think a box each of portra and ektar, all with older expiration dates so I've been using them. I have also been on more of a B&W kick with 120.

However, I have more Gold and I enjoy the results I've gotten so far. I likely could have been all Ektar last week, but shot some gold anyway just to see.

 

[mshchem]

I bought a ProPack never touched it.

 

[Roger Cole]

That was long ago, like a year. It wasn't that great

Verichrome is so old by now that an additional year won't make much difference. If it "wasn't that great" a year ago it won't be much worse, but certainly no better now.

Ah well. If I stumbled on a bunch that had been stored in one of those deep under ground deep freezes...

 

[Ernst-Jan]

Verichrome is so old by now that an additional year won't make much difference. If it "wasn't that great" a year ago it won't be much worse, but certainly no better now.

Ah well. If I stumbled on a bunch that had been stored in one of those deep under ground deep freezes...

I understand, what I meant was that I do not exactly remember how the results were, since it's a year ago.
I might try to shoot a roll in the middle of the summer when contrast is very high, I might get decent photo's then.

 

[Agulliver]

Verichrome Pan seems indestructable. I've shot rolls 50 years expired and processed rolls that were shot in the 1960s and they come out almost like fresh film.