Question for Mirko regarding Adox Colour Mission 200

Rolf-Werner · 2022-02-10T09:50:43+00:00

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Rolf-Werner

Hi there, We’re currently discussing in the neighbouring forum what your stock levels are like in the cold store. Many people are really excited that there’s finally an alternative to conventional colour film, and everyone’s keeping their fingers crossed that the project is a success. Question: Have the rolls already been cut to 35 mm? And if not, (my question) why don’t you also produce some in 120 format? One more question: How accurately do the sample images you’ve published reflect the colour characteristics? If you print them in analogue on RA4, can you expect the results to be along those lines? Thanks in advance for your reply! Rolf

MirkoBoeddecker

The current stock of film is available in such limited quantities that we do not intend to package it in different formats. Doing so would only result in it selling out even faster, whilst entailing significantly greater effort and lower profits. The consequence would be fewer resources for the actual project, and thus a step backwards. The sample images are raw scans from our lab, with no further processing. We also misjudged the volume for Color Mission I. The calculation was based on sales figures for comparable films in a similar price and sensitivity class. However, Color Mission I has broken all records and is currently selling 200 times better than, for example, Portra 160. Consequently, the stock of this single technical production run—which cannot be repeated—will be exhausted very quickly. However, we can already ‘leak’ a little information at this stage. We have produced significantly more colour material. However, this was with a different partner and in a different quality. This material is not as user-friendly as Color Mission I (very low speed – as is always the case at the start of a film project), but it is usable and, with a little filtering, also colour-balanced (though with a greatly simplified emulsion structure without special layers). This project has made it onto the large machine and is available in significantly larger quantities, as well as currently being stored as Jumbo rolls. We can produce both roll* and sheet films from this in considerable quantities. We hope to be able to share more about this in a few weeks’ time, once the tests have been completed. I would like to point out that all these projects have so far been funded by industry partners who have borne the research costs. Therefore, these are not materials designed primarily for use in standard cameras. As I mentioned in my speech in Helsinki (https://youtu.be/Z4-WLDm-e8A) three years ago, the prices of consumer film have not even come close to covering these costs to date. In the case of colour negative film, the situation has improved somewhat over the last 15 months. We can therefore now consider something like the ‘Colour Mission’. *Roll film as soon as the packaging machine is up and running again.

Rolf-Werner

Great, thanks so much for your reply – that gives me hope! Is it OK if I quote that ‘over there’? Or would you prefer to post something yourself? Best regards, Rolf P.S.: I’ve just gone ahead and put it in – it’s not exactly a secret, after all. Thanks again for your comment.