This is a scan of another negative from the Fall Photo Trip taken with a group from the Monochrome Guild. This one is a sheet of Agfapan 25. This film has not been manufactured for decades, and the company that made it, Agfa, has long since gone out of business.
I bought a number of boxes of this film from a seller on Ebay. The seller claimed that it had been properly stored in a freezer, but obviously that was not the case. All of the boxes smelled musty and old, and some of them had mould on them. I have been shooting the film every since I bought it, around the turn of the millennium. Most of it worked just fine, although the boxes that were open and partially used had become mouldy and had to be discarded. This particular negative, although it didn't come from an open box, was showing a little mottling in the sky, and may have been beginning to mould. This really is not a surprise as the expiry date of the film was July of 1990, so it was probably manufactured sometime around 1986. I have now just about run out of this film. I have a few sheets left in some film holders, that will likely be exposed and developed sometime in 2026... so forty years after being manufactured.
I developed 20 sheets of this stuff on February 2nd. I rated the film at 32iso and developed in Rodinal 1:50, for 13:00 minutes at 22C. The original Rodinal developer was manufactured by Agfa as well. When Agfa went out of business a number of other companies started producing developers based on the old Rodinal formula. The one that I used in this case was Adox APH-09.
I took this photograph on October 20th 2025 at about 1:15 in the afternoon. This is an old railway coach in the town of Big Valley. I shot this with my Ebony SV45TE view camera and a 125mm lens. I added a #8 Yellow filter to bring up the contrast a little, and lower the value of the sky. The exposure was for 1/8 second at F20.0.
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