Scanning Agfa Scala
2003-05-27 by Mitch Alland
Recently, I've been using Agfa Scala, a transparency b&w film and scanning it on the FlexTight Precision II, which has adequate dynamic range for this film. Scala has beautiful gradation and renders skies as if one were using a light-yellow filter. Despite it's 200ISO speed, it's a fine-grain film. Also the film is pullable and pushable -- quite flexible for a transparency film. It's very convenient for selecting images to print because one is looking at slides rather than at contact sheets, but still I find that I often do a lot of "dodging and burning" equivalent curve adjustments in PS, so that I use the film as if it were a negative film. Does anyone have any experience with and views on this film? --Mitch/Paris