[rollei_list] Re: Rollei Retro Film
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:11:12 -0800
BTW, I believe that the film labeled "Arista II" sold by
www.freestylephoto.biz is the exact same stuff as the Rollei Retro. It all
comes from that last run of AGFA.
Freestyle has 35mm 100 and 400 speeds in 24 exposure rolls and also 100 ft.
rolls...and it is incredibly cheap!
Check it out here:
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_search.php?rfnp=40&q=arista+ii&rfnc=402&;
Jeff
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc James Small
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:52 PM
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei Retro Film
At 01:38 AM 2/25/2008, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Are you using a hardining fixing bath? If not try one
>and see if if it helps with the curling. Curling is mostly
>caused by the differential shrinking of the emulsion vs: the
>support. Most film, both roll and sheet, has a coating of
>gelatin on the back to counteract the curling. Usually this
>back coating also contains the anti-halation dye. The dye is
>changed to a colorless form by the sulfite in the developer
>and fixing baths. Not all films have anti-curling coatings.
>My suggestion about the hardener is that it will tend to
>reduce the amount of shrinking.
I have been warned for four decades to avoid a=20
hardening fixer. I never knew WHY hardening=20
fixers existed. Me? (a Dative of Reference, for=20
you Indo-European Scholars in our midst) I will=20
stick to a non-hardening fixer and to Hewes=20
reels. I also let the film hand for a day or so=20
before printing it unless I have a rush=20
commercial job (which I've not had in the past six or seven years).
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
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