I find Retro 100 very good in D76 and Rodinal - I really like what I
get from D76 stock. I always shoot it at 100. I'm probably as bad as
any at getting the metering right, so it wouldn't surprise if I over
(more likely) or under expose by two stops every so often, but I
can't say I have too many examples of unusable thin negatives from
that film. I develop by hand in small tanks at 20ºC.
So what are you going to do, Shoot 3 frames at 100, 3 at 400 and 3
at 50, and see what you get back?
Elias
On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Thor Legvold wrote:
I recently have had some problems having this developed, the
negatives have come back very thin, pretty much useless.
Today I picked up 4 more rolls, 2 tri-x 400 and 2 Rollei retro 100.
The tri-x was beautiful, the retro not so. Now I've shot a lot of
this film and never had any problems. I thought maybe there was
some other issue, but then it occured to me that I started the 4
rolls with 100 ISO retro, went to NYC, shot a roll, changed to 400
(as it was getting dark and I was to attend a conference indoors
the next few days), *changed the meter to 400 ISO*, kept shooting.
Now, I can imagine being boneheaded enough to have forgotten to
move the ISO on the meter from 400 back to 100 when I shot the last
roll (on the last day of my trip, after the 2 400 ISO rolls), but
I'm 110% certain that the meter (and film) were both set to 100 ISO
when I started, and that film is just as thin (barely visible
shadows on the negs) as the other.
I spoke to the lab today, and they weren't sure what the problem
was, but concured that it looked severely underdeveloped. We agreed
that I will shoot another roll this afternoon and deliver it in the
morning, and see what happens.
So I wonder, has anyone had any problems with the Rollei Retro 100
ISO film?
It was developed in Tetinol Ultrafine, 4 minutes (or more) @ 24C in
a JOBO ATL1500.
Best regards,
Thor
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