AGFA / ANSCO DEVELOPERS
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From an Email by Richard Knoppow :
"Ansco is an acronym for Anthony And Scoville. It was the oldest photographic supply company in the U.S. dating from the origins of photography in this country c.1839. In 1926 Ansco was aquired by Agfa, which itself later became a part of I.G.Farben a vast German chemical cartel. Because of the increasing public disfavor of the Nazi regieme the I.G. created a holding company in the U.S. called General Aniline and Film, which held control of Agfa/Ansco. At the time the I.G. also had some holdings in the Dupont company. At the outbreak of WW-2 the U.S. government siezed all commercial properties owned by German corporations, including GAF and Agfa/Ansco. The trade name Agfa was continued until 1944 when it was dropped in favor of Ansco. The government set up a caretaker management which operated the company until it was returned to privat hands c.1960. Unfortunately, the new private management eventually destroyed the company. Ansco made a number of products using Agfa formulae and bearing Agfa names. For example Brovira and other printing papers. Ansco made some very good products but were always a little behind Kodak in some respects. For instance, Agfa/Ansco paper always curled badly although it was probably photographically better than Kodak's products. Agfa also was the first to develop gold sensitizing of film. In the early 1930's this allowed Agfa to about double the speed of their films with no increase in grain size. It caught Kodak sitting on their hands and it took a while for them to catch up. Agfa also had the first chromogenic color film with incorporated couplers. Kodak eventually caught up here too but it took some time. While Kodachrome went on the market at about the same time as Agfacolor, it did not have incorporated couplers and required an extremely complex development process.
I think Ansco could have continued to compete with Kodak in the US if it had been managed decently. With all the management problems Kodak has had over the years its management has at least not stolen from the company. Ansco was mismanaged to death. I don't remember the details but it seems to me that its last CEO embezzeled some huge amount of money and absconded with it. That was the last straw. Some stub end of Ansco still exists, I think they make floor coverings."
Agfa also fusioned with the belgium Gevaert. The photographic division of Agfa was first seperated from the mother company under the name Agfaphoto in 2005, and went into recievership a few month later. 1th January 2006 the photographic section of Agfa has ceased to exist. Agfa chemicals are now manufactured by A & O, and films and papers are being re-introduced by a consortium led by Fotoimpex (Berlin).
ORWO (Original Wolfen), now known as FilmoTec GmbH, continued to manufacture Agfa materials after WW11 in East Germany, the Orwo chemical division became Calbe.
I use the name AGFA / ANSCO for all formulas except when confusion arises. VOIGHTLANDER formulae were also manufactured by GEVAERT.
AGFA / ANSCO 8 General purpose film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 12 Finegrain film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 14 Finegrain film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 15 Finegrain film developer for use in tray
AGFA / ANSCO 16 Tropical film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 17 Soft slow finegrain developer
AGFA / ANSCO 17M Fine grain film developer, soft gradation
AGFA / ANSCO 20 Positive film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 22 High contrast film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 30 X-ray and Aerial film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 40 High acutance film developer for use in trays
AGFA / ANSCO 42 Soft working film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 45 Pyro film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 47 General purpose developer
AGFA / ANSCO 48M Film developer for use in deep tanks or trays
AGFA / ANSCO 61 Film developer for use in trays
AGFA / ANSCO 64 Tropical film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 70 Process film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 72 General use film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 73 Very high contrast film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 79 Lith developer
AGFA / ANSCO 79b Two solution lith developer
AGFA / ANSCO 81 Reprolith developer
AGFA / ANSCO 90 High contrast film developer
AGFA / ANSCO 110 Direct brown-black paper developer
AGFA / ANSCO 113 Amidol paper developer
AGFA 120 Brown Tone Print Developer
ANSCO 120 Soft working Metol only paper developer
AGFA / ANSCO 123 Warm tone paper developer
AGFA / ANSCO 125 Dektol clone paper developer
AGFA / ANSCO 130 General use neutral tone paper developer
AGFA / ANSCO 130 ADAMS Ansel Adams variant
AGFA / ANSCO 135 warmtone paper developer
AGFA NEUTOL NE Neutral tone paper developer
AGFA NEUTOL WA Warmtone paper developer
AGFA RODINAL ORIGINAL FORMULA Large grain film developer
AGFA RODINAL SPECIAL / STUDIONAL General purpose film developer
GEVAERT 107 Compensating fine grain film developer
GEVAERT G 18 Film developer
GEVAERT G 33 Soft film developer with extended shadow detail
GEVAERT G 79 Pyro film developer
GEVAERT G 201 High contrast film developer
GEVAERT G.202 Pyro-Metol film developer
GEVAERT G 203 Positive and copy film developer
GEVAERT G 204 Film developer
GEVAERT G 205 Pyro film developer
GEVAERT G 206 Fine grain, soft-working film developer
GEVAERT G 207 Extreme contrast developer for process films
GEVAERT G 208 High contrast film developer
GEVAERT G 209 X-ray and Aerial film developer
GEVAERT G 209R G 209 replenisher
GEVAERT G 210 Film developer
GEVAERT G 210R G 210 Replenisher
GEVAERT G 212 Soft gradation film developer
GEVAERT G 213 Pyro film developer
GEVAERT G 214 Film developer
GEVAERT G 215 Compensating film developer
GEVAERT G 222a Tropical film developer
GEVAERT G 223 Tropical fine grain film developer
GEVAERT G 224 Ultra fine grain film developer
GEVAERT G 242 X-ray rapid film developer
GEVAERT G 251 Universal film and paper developer
GEVAERT G 252 General purpose paper developer
GEVAERT G 253 Highkey paper developer
GEVAERT G 261 Warm tone glycin developer
GEVAERT G 262 Hydroquinone only, warm tone paper developer
VOIGHTLANDER 222 Glycin developer
