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Re: [APML] Konica VX 400?
Hello & welcome to APML, Delyan!
Those are great pics, especially with the Tair 300mm f4.5 lens. As a
Kiev camera fan, I am familiar with this lens - in the Kiev MF mount, it
also covers 6x6cm film.
That Konica film you used is great news - looks to be well balanced
spectrally, which is all too rare in current colour print films. Seeing
your results prompted me to immediately seek it out online. But (as a
warning to others here) it is not called "VX400", rather "VX 400" - the
space between them is important! Because I just did a search for "VX400"
in ebay, and the two hits I got both described XV400 as "Monochrome" or
"C41 Black and White". I also got the same result at my usual film
supplier, 7dayshop.com. Puzzled, I tried inserting the space, and lo, I
found it existed after all.
All the Konica film spec sheets are here:
http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/photo/pdfe/index.html
There seems to be a plethora of very similarly named and specified films...
Based on these sheets, I can see only very minor differences between the
VX 400, VX Super 400, Centuria Super 400, and Centuria Pro 400 specs -
nearly everything seems to be identical, like rms granularity and
reciprocity failure corrections. There is perhaps just the slightest
hint of differences in spectral sensitivity between the latter 3 - with
the VX Super 400 being a tiny bit higher in Red and lower in Blue. The
VX 400 has a lot more blue than these other 3. Also, all the VX Super
400 curves seem to be shifted ~5nm further towards the red end (which
would be good for H-alpha), but that could be a plotting error. The
characteristic curves are definitely different for these three films,
with Centuria Super having higher gamma than the other three. This is
probably why they emphasise the wide exposure latitude of the VX Super 400.
My gripe is that only one of them is available in medium format
(Centuria Pro 400), and _none_ of them in MF in Europe...sigh.
Then my eye caught sight of "Konica Chrome Centuria 200 SRM" and I
checked its specs. Wow! On paper at least, this is another E200! Huge
deep red response, good reciprocity (1 stop in 64 sec). Has anyone tried
it?
There's 50 fresh rolls of it going on ebay right now for just $60 (USA
only) if anyone wants to dive in:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3864184090&fromMakeTrack=true
Ray
Delyan Toshev wrote:
> Hi,
> this is my first post in APML, hope to be useful.
> Take a look at this gallery -
> http://starrydreams.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=2
> All shots here are on Konica VX400, even where not mentioned. Sorry that
> quality if not very good - it is all manual guiding ( even without
> motors ) and equipment is very basic, but this should give you
> impression about performance of the film.
> Here in Bulgaria there are no many choices for good and affordable film
> and our practice shows that Konica VX400 is the most useful/versatile,
> better than Centuria film.... But I admit that in these times one cannot
> really trust on what is written on the packaging box :-)
> May be the Centuria sold here is bad, and the one in US is good :-)
> Excuse me for my english, too.
>
> Happy New Year,
> --
> Delyan
>
> Alan Voetsch wrote:
>
>> Thanks to the link provided by Don Westergren a couple weeks ago, I
>> ordered 2 rolls of what I thought was supposed to be Konica Centuria
>> 400. When we got home from Sacrasmento airport today, the film was in
>> the mailbox. It is not as ordered, it is Konica VX400 SUPER.
>> Has anyone ever used this? If so what can you tell me about it? I'll
>> try calling the dealer tomorrow and find out if I can still get real
>> film.
>>
>> Thanks and Happy New Year,
>> Alan
>>
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