Adios Acros

Looks fairly certain given Fuji's pattern of film cancellations. The company's reliance on film revenues is tiny, which is likely why it's held on for so long. A personal favorite, especially in 120. If it's one of yours too, I'd lay some in.

 

Fujifilm Acros 100 Film To Be Discontinued in October 2018, Report Says - Fuji Rumors

Still have a few rolls of 120, but have two propaks of Plus-X in cold storage plus 3 more rolls in 120. I used to use a lot in 35mm until I could no long get it in 100' bulk. Freestyle actually sold it rebadged as Legacy Pro 100. Finer grain than Plus-X and more forgiving in developing than TMAX 100.

In all my years of photography, I never used the stuff. In fact, I never even heard of it. When I worked for Brown Photo in Minneapolis, MN, our black & White films were Kodak and Ilford and maybe another. We did sell Fuji, but only color. So I will not feel a loss at not being able to use it. However, it is sad to see any film go. The more choices, the better. I find it a little odd that while Ilford is experiencing an increase in sales and Kodak has brought back 3200 that Fuji would do this. But then I'm not into market research.

In fact the Acros 100 is a very fine grain iso 100 film and it has no reciproke correction till 120s. So a very modern B&W film with very good specifications. Also all confections of the Fuji films are always without any failure. But looking at the Fujifilm policy the company slowly withdraw from their analogue film products. However in reciproke correction no other B&W film comes a bit in the Acros 100 direction. Good news: Foma will introduce their Retropan 320 Soft in a 120 roll film configuration. 135-36 and some sheet film configurations were already available.

Agreed....less fickle in processing than tmx, but tonally nearly identical.

In 35mm it was already available:

 

 

Well a complete program of B&W films iso 100-200-320-400, photo papers, PE/RC, fiber and a lot of photochemicals.

IIRC, Rerapan 127 is slit from Acros so it will be gone as well.

Acros is pretty much the favorite B&W film for astrophotography by those who still do it, mainly for its excellent reciprocity characteristics, outperforming much faster films as a result. It has no other real substitute in that genre.

Back to the Fuji Acros 100 film: It is a real loss because in reciproke correction and fine grain there is NO replacement which comes even close to that 120s lineair exposure time. In fine grain you can use Tmax 100 instead which is about the same level. Delta 100 from Ilford has a tick more grain.

Moderators had more control in the old version of photo.net. If that was still around I would use the old Bozo filter to add the word "analog". If someone used the word "analog' then the post would not take with the appearance of this = "Analog? Do you mean film? If so write the word film." As it is the only thing I can do is edit out the word "analog" in a post and substitute the word "film". I suppose I could delete and entire post that had the word "analog" in it and substitute "Note: post deleted for use of the word "analog" instead of "film ". If you are talking about film say so."

Okay. I went back and deleted any post that had the confusing and ambiguous word "analog" in it.

Good to know, I may order some for the freezer before October then. It's a nice film, very clean, almost antiseptic, but I've concluded overall I like Ilford FP-4 better. As long as that and Tri-X are around for b&w film, I'm good.

 

Acros is more contrasty than FP-4 but with the silver efex pro software film simulations (for digital camera files) they seem to have it reversed, with the FP-4 simulation being higher contrast.

In the case of images, analog doesn't only mean film. There is analog electronic video, and I suppose one could also store still images in that form.

 

I have wondered why we have a special word (video) for electronic imaging, but no special word for electronic audio.