A color negative ORWO coats at the Bitterfeld-Wolfen works, where film has been made since 1910.
ORWO traces the formula to an Agfa motion picture stock last used on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991, and describes NC400 as its NC500 with finer, more subtle grain, deliberately balanced toward green with desaturated shadows.
In use it is cool, muted and low in contrast, with a green-blue cast, visible grain and halation. It shares NC500's behavior more than the finer-grain framing suggests.
Box speed tends to look underexposed. Casual Photophile found the frames thin at 400 even in bright sun and rated it nearer 200. Some retailers sell it as a tungsten film, which the coater's own datasheet contradicts.
Real-world takes from shooters who've used this film stock. Exposure tips, dev quirks, hidden strengths.
