Scott Nelson wrote:
>Ken, I believe you'll be pleased with the RSX-50, I am and would like your
>opinion when you see it.
and Joel Wilcox wrote:
>Oops! Agfa changed the emulsion to give greater latitude and -- guess what
>- -- color saturation. The new stuff leaves me a little underwhelmed. I've
>only shot one roll of what now is sold under that number, so my reaction is
>perhaps hasty. Just better not buy a brick yet.
Results: Joel, you may remember that I photograghed that butterfly with
both the RSX-50 and a roll of long-expired Sensia. They were processed at
the same time in a roller (modern track system not rolled containers)
system using Fuji chemistry. This lab I used in Des Moines, Designed
Images Inc., did a fantastic job in which I am well pleased.
The RSX-50 seemed to have a far better exposure lattitude on the shadow
side, but behaved like Ektachrome 64 on the highlight side (that is, the
whites and other highlights block up excessively). The pictures of the
Jack-in-the-Pulpit deep in the forest had a nasty light greenish cast to
it. I've never needed to use the "jungle filtration" before with any other
film, but would need to with the RSX-50. The film lacked the saturation of
reds/oranges and captured those colors in a similar manner to Ektachrome
64. (I'm comparing to the E-64 that had been around for ages before Kodak
decided to screw up every emulsion a couple years ago, so look in your
files from 5-10 years ago for comparision purposes).
The one aspect of the RSX-50 that puts it in the "rejection" catagory for
me, though, is the graininess. The expired Sensia had far smaller grain
structure and was as a result much sharper.
Thanks for the test.
Ken Norton
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