AGFA CT Precisa 200: A Film with the Pox

We are all in love with the marvelous and unchallenged pinnacle of colour-cross-explosion of the Agfa CT Precisa 100. In the quest to find films with likewise features, I looked in the neighborhood and found another gangsta: the Agfa CT Precisa 200. But, this black sheep in the family surprised me with unprecedented effects. This film is sick – it has the pox!

I got my Agfa CT Precisa 200 some time ago from eBay. No idea how old it was, nor how it was stored. I took on my last trip and it came back with red dots on the crossed pictures. So it is the perfect film for eva_eva, who is in love with polkadots all the way.

My first thought was, it’s a cool effect. Second thought, that must be fungus. Third thought, am I the only one out there with that observation? And just days after, I stumbled about an album of paper_doll with the identical marks from the same film.

So it seems, this effect has happend before and there is a system behind it. I figured that when the exposure is darker, there are more dots. Or vice versa. I noticed this when a dot went over a light and a dark area. Then, the colour of the dot slighlty vanishes in the light area. So when you would give the unexposed film to the development, you would receive an otherwordly sky of red stars back. I also figured, when there are more dots, the picture tends to be more reddish, or again, the other way around. The dots themselves come in all sizes and are darker on the edges than on the inside. All in all it feels like a very organic living bacteria on a piece of film. This kind of gives it a very interesting point of storytelling. Analogue photography is alive!

I know that shoujoai asked herself the question as well, where the dots come from. I guess fungus is the closest guess. But at least we can circle the red dots down to the CT Precisa 200 now.

Compared with the CT Precisa 100, it shows different characteristics when crossed. There is a vintage hue on all the pictures, like a plesent retro-veil. Also, the contrasts are much lower then on the Precisa 100 and the colours turn more pinkish and turquoise. But don’t nail me down with this description, I am not so well with colours.

Another thing, that is striking is that there are more exposures on the film. Maybe I just got the most awkward batch or the CT Precisa 200 comes with no less than 39 exposures.

The AgfaPhoto CT Precisa captures your memories with exceptional colour rendition and is ideal for sunny outdoor adventures. When cross-processed, you will see an overall colour-shift as cool blue tones envelop your images. See the whole range of colour slides in our Shop.

written by wil6ka on 2012-06-28 #gear #review #film-review #fungus #vicuna #lomography #x-pro #paper_doll #agfa-ct-precisa-200 #french-polynesia #user-review #shoujoai #eva-eva #stephane #tschossi