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Rollei Retro (35mm, 100 iso) user-review
written by vicuna on August 14th, 2008 (1 vote)

  • Tags
  • Brand
    Rollei
  • Name
    Retro
  • en, common, type
    black and white
  • Format
    35mm
  • en, common, iso
    100
  • Place of Origin
    Germany

Have you always wanted that great classic taste of b&w? Those high contrast and deep shadows shots from some of the world’s greatest photographers? Don’t ask any further because the answer is here, the Rollei Retro 100ASA film!

The Rollei Retro 100 is perhaps the best b&w film to achieve the most “classical” (in the best sense of the word of course! ;) b&w pictures. The very fine grain and overall qualities of the b&w sensibility is to be found in this film. I think personally that the secret of this film lies on its middle tones, between the black and the whites. It give the pictures something deep and “alive” and you can wonder how “real” this b&w film is although the reality you shot is in color!

This retro 100 is much richer than some color films and has much more subtility and “reality” than most of other b&w films around the market. It’s really one of my favorites b&w films for sure!

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