[rollei_list] Re: Rollei Retro Film
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:05:08 -0800
They also have 120 rolls of the same emulsion, last I looked...
PJ Nebergall
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:11:12 -0800 "Jeff Kelley"
<jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marc James
> Small
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:52 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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