1977 Agfa CT18 Oban Scotland

I only ever used 2 rolls of this film. A friend bought a 100ft roll and from that sold me this and another as 36exp. He also processed the slides for me, (fingerprints still on a few)

We met and stayed in a caravan in a forest by a sea Loch, trapped in the evening because of MIDGES, voracious little so and sos. it was a baking summer and a drought, in Scotland!

Has been stored like my Kodachromes, summer winter in my loft darkroom.

Quite grainy but a nicely balanced film, very easy to scan, unlike K....

No colour correction other than tones and grey balance, again unlike K....

Olympus OM1 and 50mm f 1.8. Lovely camera.

Nice images Mike and great to be looking back to your holiday.

I wonder if any old 'togs like me here remember the mantra we had in those and earlier days: 'Kodak summers, Agfa autumns'. It seemed to us at the time that Kodak reproduced the heady reds, blues and yellows of summer much better than Agfa whereas Agfa's golds and russets of autumn were much nicer than Kodak - or is it just these rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia that I'm wearing.

Very nice interesting images, my time in Scotland was the year after my African images below. I was on trains so saw a lot of towns. I really appreciate the images you have presented.

My experience with CT-18 has been different, my images are not holding up to age. Nice to see yours are.

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Nice images Mike and great to be looking back to your holiday.

I wonder if any old 'togs like me here remember the mantra we had in those and earlier days: 'Kodak summers, Agfa autumns'. It seemed to us at the time that Kodak reproduced the heady reds, blues and yellows of summer much better than Agfa whereas Agfa's golds and russets of autumn were much nicer than Kodak - or is it just these rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia that I'm wearing.

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Thanks for your message.

These were taken in mid August I think , but this old 'tog' has a faulty memory.

The boat pictures were Mallaig, not Oban and at about sunset(autumnal colour)

Also they were processed by Agfa, because my friend's processing was, shall we say sub optimal. I was surprised at how well they have lasted, as they are a good ten years older than my Kodachromes. These Agfa emulsions look like Kodachrome as the emulsion side is very pronounced compared to that of E6 films. I wonder if they also contain some original silver.

I did try to print these to Cibachrome, but not very successfully.I.I had better luck with Ektachrome and generally stuck to that. Then I took up macro photography and switched to K25. Big mistake! Dreadful to print and later to scan.

So much for nostalgia.

I had forgotten what a TOG was.Then it came to me, Terry's old geezers'

Terry Wogan

I used to work in BBC radio and used to engineer that early morning programme, every so often .

Really a fine bloke, no side other than a good side to him.

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Very nice interesting images, my time in Scotland was the year after my African images below. I was on trains so saw a lot of towns. I really appreciate the images you have presented.

My experience with CT-18 has been different, my images are not holding up to age. Nice to see yours are.

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Thanks. Perhaps it was the African heat!

I was surprised how well they have stood up.

My first scans were not very good, as I had omitted my usual system by letting Epson scan do the work. I usually do a auto colour and then in levels slacken the tones to make a flat scan.I just scanned the auto result, but that had crushed the shadows, particularly the red channel.I redid the ones I posted and used my normal method, result no red crushing

This is a comparison,

the umolested Epson scan



molested epson scan.

Both have the same processing in Lightroom



Another unmolested



It makes a big difference.