AgfaVista 200

Agfa Vista 200 was an ISO 200 consumer color negative film for C-41 processing, made by Agfa-Gevaert and listed in the company’s May 2003 brochure for 135 and 110 cameras [1]. The name lived on: after Agfa-Gevaert left consumer film, Lupus Imaging & Media sold AgfaPhoto Vista Plus 200, which reviewers report was Fujifilm-made. That stock was discontinued in early 2018 [2] [5]. Most reviews describe the later stock, not the 2003 film.

Look and color

The datasheet and the reviews cover different products, so read this section with that in mind. Agfa’s only color claim is technical: its “EYE VISION” sensitization matches the film’s response more closely to the eye, intended to limit textureless reds and brown-looking greens [1]. It is a marketing argument, not a measurement.

• High saturation. Emulsive puts the film between Kodak Ektar 100 and UltraMax 400, “one of the most vivid” consumer films its author had shot in a while [8]. Casual Photophile writes of “Jolly Rancher” saturation, with blues, reds and greens beyond reality [7]. Analog.cafe reports “high-resolution crimsons” [6].
• Warmth: the reviews contradict each other. Analog.cafe calls the palette warm, with a slight purple undertone in the mid-grays and grays that shift toward teal [6]. Emulsive says it leans toward blue and green [8]. Another reviewer places it between Portra 400 and Ektar 100, neither as golden as Portra nor as punchy as Ektar [9].
• Skin tones are disputed. Casual Photophile found them “harsh, red, distracting” [7]; Emulsive found them accurate, with no shift toward pink, yellow or brown [8].
• The scanner and the batch matter. These are cheap-film reviews of stock that reportedly changed manufacturer over the years [2] [8]; no review isolates the film from the scan.

Tonality

• Contrast. Analog.cafe calls it “fairly contrasty”, with a graphic pop in microcontrast [6]. Casual Photophile describes high contrast that can swing between contrasty and muted [7]. The brochure plots density curves for the three layers, but we have not read numbers from them.
• Latitude. Agfa gives −1½ to +3½ f-stops [1]. Of the later stock, Shoot It With Film says it handles some overexposure but “definitely needs a lot of light” and struggles indoors [9].
• Long exposures. No correction from 1/10,000 s to 1 s; add one stop at 10 s [1].

Grain and sharpness

Agfa rates grain with RMS granularity (×1000), a measured value, and does not use Kodak’s Print Grain Index; the two scales cannot be compared [1].

• Resolving power is 130 lines/mm at contrast 1000:1 and 50 lines/mm at 1.6:1 [1].
• Reviews of the later stock: “quite sharp” [6], very fine sharpness next to Vista 400 but more grain than expected at 200 [7]; Emulsive calls the grain exceptionally fine [8]. Reviewers disagree on the amount, and they were looking at a different product.

Spectral sensitivity

The blue-sensitive layer holds a plateau near 1.8 log from about 405 to 455 nm before peaking near 471 nm, the green layer peaks near 560 nm and the red layer near 615 nm with a shoulder around 640 nm [1]. The Grain Archive style is tuned from the datasheet and the reviews; it is not computed from these curves.

Names, status and history

• Agfa-Gevaert era. The 2003 brochure lists Vista 100, 200, 400 and 800; Vista 200 came in 135 cartridges of 12, 24+3 and 36 frames and as a 110-24 cartridge [1].
• AgfaPhoto Vista Plus 200. After AgfaPhoto GmbH closed in 2005, Lupus Imaging & Media took over distribution, first selling existing stock and later, “widely believed”, Fujifilm-made film [2]. Wikipedia says Lupus sold Vista rolls made from Fujifilm-designed stock until 2018 [5]. Sources differ on the years: Emulsive dates Fujifilm supply from 2005, Ferrania before that, and calls post-2013 stock repackaged Fujifilm C200 [8].
• Fujicolor C200: reported, disputed. Kosmo Foto states that the recent Vista 200 was Fujicolor C200 relabeled [4]. Casual Photophile notes the claim as unconfirmed, and a commenter there disputes it with photographic evidence [3]. We found no statement from Fujifilm or Lupus.
• Discontinuation (2018). DPReview reported on March 12, 2018 that Vista was no longer made and stock was drying up [2]. At publication, Shoot It With Film noted it was still on sale and available only in 35 mm [9].
• Availability now. We found no current listing. Any roll you find is old stock.

Also sold as

• Fujicolor C200 (reported source of the 2005–2018 AgfaPhoto stock; disputed in comments) (reported) [4]