Rollei Retro (35mm, 400 iso) user-review
written by kylethefrench
on July 31st, 2008
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Black White and Blue: Rollei Retro keeps it dusty!
The Rollei black and white gives me the blues because of the long wait i have to endure just to have it developed, although waiting 2 weeks to get the film back is kind of a time machine to my mom waiting for the prints to come back from Caldor’s. But once you get the film back, you notice 2 things that are a pleasure: first one is that at night with long exposures you get a very old time dusty feel, it is like a grey sepia for some reason. Another, the longer the exposure the dustier the feel however without the whiteout over exposure threat.
Day time shots have a clear sharp element with muted contrast (see dusty) that makes things look like a ghost town even with people around. I guess it is almost a pinhole feel. Oh and the fun thing that i forgot about this film is that if you don’t want to wait 2 weeks at your local Zair store to have this film processed, you can always get the home made development kit from LSI instead and rock out your own prints!
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