{"id":4047,"date":"2024-08-02T19:57:05+00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T19:57:05+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:41:40+00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:41:40+00:00","slug":"the-first-roll-of-original-wolfen-color-nc500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-first-roll-of-original-wolfen-color-nc500\/","title":{"rendered":"The first roll of Original Wolfen Color NC500"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally managed to test the newly available colour film from ORWO – the Color NC500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Let’s keep it short and sweet — ORWO is a brand built on top of what was left of the East German part of Agfa. Agfa factories were located in Wolfen, a city that was located in what was known as East Germany, and ORWO is shortened for “Original Wolfen”. The company didn’t survive the 1990s but was revived by a new company in recent years. But, enough of a history lesson, let’s keep that for some future article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NC500 is a brand-new film emulsion and is one of the very few brand-new film emulsions — next to Adox Color Mission and Harman Phoenix films. But also different — NC500 looks more refined than experimental Adox and Harman films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film has a decidedly muted colour palette, somewhat similar to Lomography’s LomoChrome Metropolis, but this film keeps the look significantly more natural and balanced. Despite low colour saturation, the film looks pleasantly natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shot a roll under reasonably good, summer light conditions in a Pentax MZ-S camera with an excellent multi-segment metering system. It was developed in a local lab and scanned as usual, with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanned and VueScan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Type 135 — 35mm (24\u00d736mm) color-negative film; C41 development process, 400 ASA. 36 exposures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Camera<\/td>Pentax MZ-S \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Lenses<\/td>Sigma AF Super-Wide II 24mm F2.8 \ud83d\udd17<\/a>
smc Pentax-FA 28mm F2.8 AL \ud83d\udd17<\/a>
smc Pentax-FA 28\u2013\u200d70mm F4 AL \ud83d\udd17<\/a>
smc Pentax-FA 50mm F1.4 \ud83d\udd17<\/a>
smc Pentax-FA Macro 100mm F2.8 \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Film<\/td>ORWO Color NC500 \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Scanner<\/td>Plustek OpticFilm 8100 + VueScan 9.5 \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Development<\/td>Foto-studio Centar, Ilica 34, Zagreb \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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