WolfenColor NC400…. Or is it 200?

Here’s a wild card, an alleged new emulsion from Orwo. TBC I did not pay $23 a roll for this, short dated rolls were on sale at B&H for under $10, which meets the criteria so why not 🙂

From Orwo’s web site:

“WOLFEN NC400 is a brand, new 400 ASA, 36 exposure, colour photographic film…. Proudly still produced in Bitterfeld-Wolfen on the original site where film manufacture has been a tradition since 1910…. At the core of our new colour film lies a unique chemical formula based on the wonderful and legendary Agfa stock last used in the BAFTA award winning film ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’….”

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And this film stock is… well a little strange. So the same rules as the roll of Kodak: Nikon F6 in matrix metering mode with an AfD 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 zoom lens, bracketing exposers around box speed over and under 1 stop with normal development. Different days and different light, but only so much you can control. I’m not sure what they were going for with this one. If someone has some old Agfa negs to compare that would be interesting. At box speed (400iso) the colors are quite muted with lots of grain and a mild shift to the blues that leaves me feeling mildly underexposed. It completely falls apart underexposed a full stop and the blue shift gets pretty dramatic. It does however to come to life when overexposed a full stop and I’ll be shooting the rest of this batch at 200. Interesting.