[rollei_list] Re: Rollei Retro Film
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:40:18 -0500
At 12:29 AM 2/25/2008, ERoustom wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I took the chance and bought 100' roll of Rollei Retro 400 (135).
>Shot some through my Rolleiflex, and processed with Rodinal 1+25 for
>7.5 min.
>Not bad at all. The film curls something fierce about the length of
>the roll (sprockets curl towards each other). I have very little
>experience to make a reliable comparison, but so far this has been
>the best film I've developed with Rodinal. Some of you said it was
>Agfa by another name... Maco makes it.
Gads. I DO need to get my darkroom back up and=20
running; it has been six years now and I do miss=20
it. I CAN process film, though, and I really should get back into this=
again.
First, savagely curling film can generally be=20
tamed by the use of Hewes (King Concept)=20
reels. Magnificent and they make a day in the=20
darkroom a delight. Hewes reels have been known=20
to cure back pains, the heartbreak of psoriasis,=20
and inadequate sexual performance. Try 'em!
Second, Rodinal is always a stab in the dark with=20
a new film, but, once the registration is made,=20
the developer is absolutely=20
consistent. Marvelous stuff. XTOL remains my=20
all-time favorite, but D-76.ID-11 and Rodinal are=20
not far behind. Rodinal was first marketed in=20
1893 (AGFA lost a great shot at an advertising=20
campaign fifteen yeras ago but, then, D-76 dates=20
from 1926, and I suspect Kodak will blow it as well in another 18 years.)
Go for it! I love 30m (97 feet) or 100 feet=20
rolls of film. I have a slew of Leica and Zeiss=20
Ikon cassettes which I regularly use -- the Zeiss=20
Ikon ones are really great, better than the Leitz=20
ones. (Canon copied the Leitz cassette and kept=20
these in production to about 1980, while Nikon=20
copied the Zeiss Ikon cassette and these remained=20
in their catalogue to at least 1990, and the=20
Soviets made a clone of this as well.) I also=20
have a bunch of the old Ilford reuseable cassettes. I love bulk rolling.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
---
Rollei List
- Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'
in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org
- Online, searchable archives are available at
//www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
Other related posts:
