Is this the reason I can't find Agfa 200 at my local Poundland?

@gramps Had the same problem as you. It would only let me order one roll and when I found out that it was going to cost £5.00 for postage, I cancelled the order.
 
h'mm if you can't buy quantity then £5 del for one is a No No...thinking, why don't they have a system where you can order then pick up free at the shop, some others can do it.
 
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The Sutton in Surrey branch had lots last weekend. I have around 30 rolls in the fridge so should be OK for a while.

Looking at the petition, the comment from Poundland says they are looking for an alternative product. One they can bang out for a £ in other words :)

Wonder what they will find? IIRC they used to sell Kodak Colourplus 200 before switching to Vista but I remember reading not very flattering reviews of it. Could they go back to that? Ferrania might be an option one day if they were cheap enough? Wonder if a tie up with Poundland would do Ferrania a world of good. Likely give them volume that they wouldn't get otherwise?
 
I assume online is limited as otherwise you'd get selfish prats ordering all of it and putting it on ebay for £3 a roll.
 
I'm spent up as I've just bought a load of Tri-X as lomography shop were doing it at £4 a roll and it was back in stock.

If only Poundland did tri-X for a £1 a roll...
 
A friend got 13 rolls of Vista at the Bath Poundland today. Cleared the shelves I am down to 4 rolls. Nice to have for non- b/w days.

If Poundland could find a basic replacement that will encourage people to try film, perhaps for the first time, it could help re-establish the medium in the mainstream market. More friends are giving it a go.

Steve
 
srichards said:
I assume online is limited as otherwise you'd get selfish prats ordering all of it and putting it on ebay for £3 a roll.
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...and if you are in a town where a seller lives they have probably cleared out their local Poundland. :(
 
deux 10 bobs...:D

another thing about pound shop film that makes my bum itch, I imagine a 24 exp c41 costs the same to process as a 36.....huh ??

and another thing, this has just reminded me of a roll of film that came with my charity shop mju2.......12 flippin exposures, wthell good is that, 24 is crap enough, who's gonna pay processing on a 12 frame roll of the cheapest film on Earth

and another thing, that mju2 has been having a shoot off with an mju1 and Brians XA, just souped the results last weekend, its top secret currently but I'd been suicidal if I'd paid processing on em, I don't think I have enough decent material to post a worthwhile shootout thread...:(

damit
 
The last lot of Poundland Agfa Vista 200 I got was 24 exposures, and I bought that in about May last year, so I'm not sure when they last had 36 exp rolls for £1?. However, this is somewhat academic for me, as (in some people's eyes I'm going to commit heresy now, but I have to be honest) I didn't like the stuff! I found it too grainy and didn't like the look of it, but found it useful for testing newly bought old 35mm cameras with, so I hope they keep selling it for that reason, and for the sake of those people who get on with it OK and enjoy using it. (y)
 
Mr Badger said:
The last lot of Poundland Agfa Vista 200 I got was 24 exposures, and I bought that in about May last year, so I'm not sure when they last had 36 exp rolls for £1?. However, this is somewhat academic for me, as (in some people's eyes I'm going to commit heresy now, but I have to be honest) I didn't like the stuff! I found it too grainy and didn't like the look of it, but found it useful for testing newly bought old 35mm cameras with, so I hope they keep selling it for that reason, and for the sake of those people who get on with it OK and enjoy using it. (y)
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I tend to use it for testing but also I do think that it converts very nicely to black and white.

The-Girl-in-the-Crowd-b&w by Andy, on Flickr
 
Have they thought of renaming poundland to onepoundtwentyfive so they can continue selling cheap film? ;):welcome:
 
Mr Badger said:
... I didn't like the stuff! I found it too grainy and didn't like the look of it, but found it useful for testing newly bought old 35mm cameras with, so I hope they keep selling it for that reason, and for the sake of those people who get on with it OK and enjoy using it. (y)
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I'm with you on this, my dislike of Vista is well documented on this forum but it is useful for testing cameras so I hope they continue to stock it.

Still plenty in my local Poundland if anybody wants to pay the postage.
 
If you can find 36 shot Vista for less than £3.50, it'll cost you less than Poundland's 24-shot, assuming a process and scan cost of £5 per film like Filmdev. Personally I prefer Vista 400, which I buy in 10-packs. Last lot from AG cost me £34.90...
 
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joxby said:
I imagine a 24 exp c41 costs the same to process as a 36.....huh ??
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I've often thought this as well. If you buy a 24 exp roll for £1 and pay £8 for dev + scan, it's cost 37.5p per image. If you buy something like Ektar at £5.85/roll for 36 exp, it's cost you 38.5p per image... Pretty much the same price and you get Ektar instead of Vista.
 
ChrisR said:
If you can find 36 shot Vista for less than £3.50, it'll cost you less than Poundland's 24-shot, assuming a process and scan cost of £5 per film like Filmdev. Personally I prefer Vista 400, which I buy in 10-packs. Last lot from AG cost me £34.90...
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It has been mentioned that Vista 400 is superia 400, can you check the code no on the cassette and use https://dexter.pcode.nl/?dx= to see what comes up?
 
Carl Hall said:
I've often thought this as well. If you buy a 24 exp roll for £1 and pay £8 for dev + scan, it's cost 37.5p per image. If you buy something like Ektar at £5.85/roll for 36 exp, it's cost you 38.5p per image... Pretty much the same price and you get Ektar instead of Vista.
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Vista 24 exp done at Asda cost me 19p a frame (all in)...
 
I'm going to be using it to shoot at night, pushed to 800 and souped as black and white. Because why not, eh - it's only £1 a roll and I already have all the chems!
 
mothdust said:
I'm going to be using it to shoot at night, pushed to 800 and souped as black and white. Because why not, eh - it's only £1 a roll and I already have all the chems!
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It'll push to 1600 without any bother if you need an extra stop ......Tried and tested ....By me!!:D
 
Mr Badger said:
The last lot of Poundland Agfa Vista 200 I got was 24 exposures, and I bought that in about May last year, so I'm not sure when they last had 36 exp rolls for £1?. However, this is somewhat academic for me, as (in some people's eyes I'm going to commit heresy now, but I have to be honest) I didn't like the stuff! I found it too grainy and didn't like the look of it, but found it useful for testing newly bought old 35mm cameras with, so I hope they keep selling it for that reason, and for the sake of those people who get on with it OK and enjoy using it. (y)
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I find that if I let the lab scan at their standard quality, the image can be fairly rough (but not grain on colour film) but if I rescan at home to high resolution, the images are much better. The roughness with the commercial scans is clearly down to scanner artifacts.
 
I actually prefer it at 1600, unless you've PP'd the noise/'grain' out of it?
 
Mr Badger said:
I actually prefer it at 1600, unless you've PP'd the noise/'grain' out of it?
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Iirc, I adjusted slightly the colour balance ( to rid excess red from temperature fluctuation whilst developing) and probably sharpenened a tad ......not even sure if I did that much tbh as most of them have dust etc on them so they haven't had much done to them.

Tbh both the b&w and colour were nothing more than experiments to see how far Vista 200 coud be pushed.

i did go upto 3200 and 6400 ......the latter was a non starter, but there were some "salvagable" results at 3200 which when you consider that was a 4 stop push, was quite impresive and all for a quid!
 
@Asha thanks for the examples - they look very serviceable at 1600, and definitely the kind of feel I'm going for! How did you determine dev times? I was planning to develop in T-Max developer (as I have lots of it left), but if you think it's worth getting some Rodinol instead and stand developing, I'll do that...?
 
mothdust said:
@Asha thanks for the examples - they look very serviceable at 1600, and definitely the kind of feel I'm going for! How did you determine dev times? I was planning to develop in T-Max developer (as I have lots of it left), but if you think it's worth getting some Rodinol instead and stand developing, I'll do that...?
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I've done semi stand developing of both b&w and colour films in different developers and the results have always been fine ......lack of contrast with the cross processed films but that is the norm.

I wouldn't purposely go purchase rodinal......although I've never used t max developer, I can see no reason as to why it won't offer similar results with semi stand than any other b&w developer.....simply make the 1:100 solution, agitate for about 30 seconds to start with, then again at half hour or so.


Similarly the timimg doesn't have to be exact o somewhere near an hour and the temp somewhere near 20 C but if it's a few degrees les then no prob, just extend the time by 10 or 15 mins.

Tbh semi stand is practically idiot proof ....hence why it works for me lol
 
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