Re: [APML] Centuria 400 - Photographic Results II

[Philip Perkins <pgp@astrocruise.com>]

Chris,

Very interesting and useful work.  Some of those results may be better than 
they appear at first.  I tested this film sometime around 1998 and thought 
the results showed some promise.  Of course the film may have changed since 
then.  At the time I thought the reds had a somewhat "muddy-brown" colour, 
but otherwise the Ha response was pretty decent.  One thing that is very 
good with this film is the OIII crossover - currently this may be one of 
the few colour neg films around that tries to record the visible spectrum 
accurately.  I think this film has potential and is worth testing further - 
the only reason I didn't pursue it back in 1998 was that PJM-2 and PPF were 
available at the time.  It's hard to understand why the quality problems 
exist - the rolls I tested all seemed to be fine.  Another thing worth 
mentioning is that there used to be a 120 format version of this film - not 
sure if that's still the case.

--Philip


At 10:33 20/06/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I cant believe the number of hours Ive spent on testing this film, I hope
>its appreciated!  Anyway, here is the tracked telephoto tests from dark sky
>sites for your evaluation.  At this point, I am not impressed with the film
>for wide angle, and its green response tends to dilute the red sensitivity.
>There are major quality issues with this film as you will see, each roll
>varied alot, and the color balance changed from roll to roll.  Here are the
>results of many hours of work:
>
>http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/filmimagepages/kontests2.html
>
>
>Comments Appreciated!
>
>
>Clear Skies,
>
>Chris Schur
>Astro: http://www.PSIAZ.com/Schur/astro
>Robotics: http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/roboticsmain.html


Philip Perkins
<pgp@astrocruise.com>
Wiltshire UK & Luberon France

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