I couldn't believe it when I went into a photo store the other day
and asked for some Kodak Supra 100, a wonderful film which has
performed extremely well for me on numerous backpack trips, and they
said Kodak doesn't make it anymore. That's OK, I said, I'll take some
of whatever the replacement film is, thinking they had somehow
improved it. "There is no replacement" was the reply.
Now that is disappointing. I sometimes use Fuji but do not like the
way Fuji negatives curl up, and also it does not have the same
inter-sprocket spacing as other 35mm film (if you don't believe this,
I will be happy to line up an engineers ruler against some of my Fuji
and some of my Kodak negatives). Why does inter-sprocket spacing
matter? Well it makes it harder to scan if the frames don't line up
with the gaps in the negative holder.
So that leaves Agfa, which has a new Ultra 100 worth exploring.
Reportedly the dye formulation in the Ultra 100 is different from
Agfa's Ultra 50, which I also liked a lot and is no longer made.
All in all, it would seem that digital cameras are having a big
impact on the film landscape sooner than expected.
6:30:14 AM 
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