Robert, The lab I use has Agfa equipment and printed on Agfa Prestige paper. The only other thing that I can come up with is that I didn't use my Lumiquest SoftBox on the flash unit. But I don't recall this shine in the past when I haven't used it. It probably would have helped, but...
Bruce Thursday, June 13, 2002, 9:58:18 AM, you wrote: RW> Hi, RW> Can you tell us how you had the film processed/printed? Fuji, Kodak, Agfa, RW> Konica, etc. ? I have some of the Agfa Portrait 160 to try out and am RW> curious as to how well it prints on non-Agfa paper. I have read that the 160 RW> is at its best printed using Agfa. My lab uses Kodak Royal and Fuji Crystal RW> Archive papers. They seem to handle the Vista films really well. I don't RW> know of any labs in my area which use Agfa processing/paper. RW> Another question for the group: What process/paper does Mystic Color Lab RW> use? I know they market Agfa films with the Mystics label. RW> Thanks, RW> Robert in Greenville SC >>From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Agfa Portrait 160 >>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:41:04 -0400 >> >>I just shot 3 rolls of Agfa Portrait 160 (120 format) under varied lighting >>condition, using fill and full flash. I found the film quite pleasing for >>skin tones. I liked it better than NPS for skintones, but not as much for >>scenics. >> >>I've had similar problems with my digicam using the Pocket Bouncer on my >>flash. >>Since then I've gone to the white card aproach. >> >>Jeff >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:37 AM >>Subject: Agfa Portrait 160 >> >> >> > I just got back some rolls shot at my daughter's 8th grade graduation. >> > All in all, I shot 1 roll of Kodak Portra 800, 2 rolls of Agfa >> > Portrait 160, 1 roll of Fuji NHG II and one 220 roll of Konica >> > Portrait 160. I shot this variety due to changing light conditions >> > and wanting to test the Agfa and Konica portrait films. >> > >> > I was somewhat surprised to see that the Agfa portrait roll shot >> > indoors with flash showed major shine on all faces. No blown out >> > highlights, more like shiny makeup that really showed up. One shot >> > had a guy in it that had no makeup on and he still had some shiny >> > areas. I have been shooting lots of Kodak Portra and some Fuji >> > portrait films and have not really seen this. The outdoor fillflash >> > Agfa looked fine, just this indoor roll where flash was the main light >> > looked bad. >> > >> > Has anyone else heard of or experienced this with Agfa Portrait >> > before? I still have a couple of rolls to test with. >> > >> > >> > Bruce >> > - >> > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >> > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >> > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . >>- >>This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >>go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >>visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . RW> _________________________________________________________________ RW> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: RW> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx RW> - RW> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, RW> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to RW> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
