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Film: Rollei Retro 80S @ 80 ISO | Develop: HC-110B, 5:00 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
Film: Rollei Retro 80S @ 80 ISO | Flash: National PE-164 | Develop: Caffenol C-H (Stock), 15 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
We tend search for horizontality in everything, yet sometimes there’s vertical or diagonal dimension, that enriches one’s mind.
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6x6 Rollei Retro 80S film developed in Rodinal 1+25, wet-mounted drumscan.
There are of course a few cookies left in the side pockets.
Minolta SRT101 + Rokkor-PG 50mm 1:1.4
Rollei Retro 80S developt with ARS Imago Monobath
I have been working through my stash of old, expired films a lot more of late. As one might expect, when you work for two decades at an analog camera store you build up quite a collection of random films. Combine that with one of my at-work projects to build an extensive library of every film type (and thus snagging every odd roll of film that comes through that I have not shot) and the result is at least one refrigerator vegetable drawer, three cardboard bins and countless gallon Ziploc bags of weird or expired films. I have known myself to often vacillate on what to do with all this film. On the one hand, it is meant to be shot. Unexposed film in a fridge has no personal value until it is pulled out, loaded in a camera and exposed. But on the other hand is that feeling of wanting to save it for "just the right moment". To make things even more complicate, there is the uncertainty of not knowing how the film has aged or what shape it is in. Surely I don't want to waste a whole trip's worth of photos on some skunky roll of color film, right? But you know what has really helped get me working through my hoard? The double whammy of the rising price of film (three rolls of film can easily top $40 now, and sometimes $50) combined with adjusting my budget to save as much as I can to help my son who will be starting college in September (I still cannot believe that). While the latter is a situation with a good plan in place, it has still given me a lot of encouragement to save any further monies that I can, hence being a bit more tight with my film budget and a bit more loose with my film cache.
And that is how I found myself at the tulip festival for the first time in about a decade with an expired roll of Rollei Retro 80S. In actuality, I had loaded this roll down in Salem whilst visiting cherry blossoms at the state capitol, but had a couple remaining frames by the time I got out to Woodburn.
I have shot several rolls of this film in the past, but not in a couple years and knew its infrared properties. I also knew this film's tendency for mottling and backing paper issues as it aged. So this roll was just for fun, in a sense. I mean, most every roll I expose is just for fun. But this carried slightly lower expectations and standards than usual. On that note, I figured why not play with my Flexbody and an infrared filter at the tulips. I was betting that regardless of the color of the tulips they would all render white in the infrared spectrum, so I was looking for some bit of contrast to pop out from what I thought would be a white sea of flowers. I found it in the distant tree and then used the Flexbody's tilt capabilities to further emphasize that. The rest was math and patience.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Rollei Retro 80S
Leica MP w/40mm Voigtlander Nokton on Rollei Retro 80S dev. in Rollei Supergrain 1:15 for 10.5 min at 68F
Film: Rollei Retro 80S @ 80 ISO | Develop: Rodinal 1+25, 8:00 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
(Image taken with an Analog film camera).
Black & White Film: Rollei Retro 80s @ISO 40.
Camera: Canon A2 (1992), Lens: Tamron 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 LD
Filter: Red, Support: Tripod with timer.
Copy negative with a DSLR, reverse with Adobe Camera Raw.
Edit contrast with Nick Silver Efex Pro2 & ACDSee Photo Editor 11.
Notes: Some extra time this week to post. Using Rollei Retro 80s for the first time. Negative came out dense and over exposed.
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(Location: Smyrna Dunes Park, New Smyrna Beach, Florida).
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Film: Rollei Retro 80S @ 80 ISO | Develop: HC-110B, 5:00 mins @ 20°C | Scan: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i