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Off to Prague, to try out some Rollei Retro 80S black and white film for a forthcoming blog post. And also to see Prague.
EDIT: The blog post eventually came about a mere seven months later:
Amsterdam (NL), november 2013
Minolta X-700 + 28mm
Rollei Retro 80s shot @ 50 ISO developed in R09 One Shot 4 min. @ 20 C.
Underpass (just before the Anderson Bridge) linking Empress Place to Esplanade Park. This underpasss is Singapore's first pedestrian underpass built about five decades ago).
Retro 80S developed in Supergrain 1+15.
As a second roll of black-and-white film with my new camera Pentax 17 (see below for the details about the camera), I loaded a 36- exposure Rollei Retro 80S cartridge and exposed the film for its nominal 80 ISO over several days from April 23 to 29, 2025 in Lyon city, France and surroundings.
The Pentax 17 was equipped with an Anti-UV or a Yellow x2 40.5mm Hoya HMC filter as indicated below . For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycle.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects). Since 80 ISO is not in the ISO scale of the Pentax 17 (we can select only 100 or 50), I used the 100 ISO value plus 0.3EV on the correction dial, giving the correct exposure value for the Rollei 80S. The Pentax 117 light sensors are being the filter and the filter is then automatically compensated.
The Rollei Retro 80S (that is an Agfa Aviphot film) black-and-white film is a super-panchromatic film further sensitized in the red up to the near infra-red (760nm) film for technical, industrial and aerial photography, giving in particular valuable contrasts differentiating many different varieties of vegetation and reducing the atmospheric haze as well. The red is however much more bright than a regular panchromatic film. The film is coated on a clear polyester teraphtalate (PET) base with anti-scratch and anti-halation layers that dissolve in the developer during the chemical processing of the film
Yellow x2 filter
A visit to the North observation spot of Saint-Exupéry Lyon's Intl Airport
April 26 2025
D 517 E route
69330 Pusignan
France.
After completion (74 frames), the film was processed using Adox Adonal developer at 1+50 dilution for 14min at 20°C.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.3) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas 2024, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
Plaubel Makina 67
Rollei Retro 80S developed in Caffenol CLCS (Cold Start) stand 60min @ 15°-20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Basilique de Thierenbach
Jungholtz • Haut-Rhin • Alsace • France
Caffenol CLCS
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
60 sec. slow agitations then let stand for 59 minutes
mamiya rz67
110mm f/2,8 with Haida 720nm IR filter
rollei retro 80S
HC-110 dil. H (1+63), 10min at 24'C
Just after I got an IR filter they stopped production of the most amazing IR film - Efke. I am looking for other options and found some info that Rollei Retro 80S can produce quite a nice IR effect. Well, I do like the result, but I wish I could get the pitch black sky of Efke...
02-Sep-2023 16:33
Rollei Retro 80S rated @ EI 50
Developed in PyrocatHD 1+1+100 for 13 mins @ 20C
Pre-Wash 5 mins
Inversions for first 30 sec
One Inversions every 30 sec
Two water Stop Baths of 1 min each
Alkali Fixer (1+4) [Fix twice clearing time]
Fixer clearing time 2 minutes : Fixed for 4 minutes total
One clearing wash for one minute to flush out fixer
Inversion washes for 10 minutes, multiple water changes
Ilford Surfactant : 2 mins
Bronica SQAi + 110mm
Highlight = 17
Shadow = 12
Midpoint = 14.5
Filters : Lee Red 25 (-2.5)
Final LV=12
1/15 sec @ f11
Leica M6, Leica Elmar-M 1:2.8/50. Rollei Retro 80S, Rollei Supergrain (1:10) 6' 20°C. Scan from negative film. © All rights reserved. This photograph is Copyright and may NOT in part or in whole be reproduced in any electronic or printed medium without prior permission from the photographer.
Location: Shung Ling Street, San Po Kong, Hong kong
Canon EOS 1V HS
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR MC Flektogon 20mm f/2.8 (M42)
Rollei Retro 80s as ISO 50
Kodak HC-110 (E)
5 min at 20ºC
Taken with the Voigtlander Bessa-L that I previously used in week 23 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project.
Rollei Retro 80S film developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 14mins 20 deg.
25mm Color Skopar lens.
Camera: Canonet G-III QL17, red filter. Film: Rollei Retro 80S exp 06/2018, developed in Caffenol-C (washing soda 42g, Nescafé Gold 14g, Vitamin C 6g, 500ml), 15min @ 20°C.
2 frames merged in Photoshop.
Architecture: Markus Schietsch Architekten, 2014.
Location: Chatham Road North, Hong Kong
Leica IIIg
Leitz Wetzlar Summicron 35mm LTM
Nature Green Filter
Rollei Retro 80s
"Testing Lenses" Series: 35mm f1.8 Canon LTM
Rollei Retro 80S exposed at 25ASA
PMK developer 10min - probably not long enough.
Location: Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Hong Kong
Leica M7
Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZM
Rollei Retro 80s
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Shot on Rollei Retro 80S at EI 80.
Black and white negative film in 120 format.
Hasselblad Planar F 80 F/2.8.
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Large version at: emulsive.org/photography/35mm-format/always-watching-roll...
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Compare this Black and White photo of Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park, Utah with the previous posted color photo from the same angle. Both B&W and color formats have certain merits.
This photo was taken with a KИEB-60 medium format film camera with a МС BEГA-26B 2.8/120mm lens and Tiffen 67mm Orange 15 filter using Rollei Retro 80S film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Yashica Mat 124G
Rollei Retro 80S
Rodinal 1:100 1 hora desatendido
Escaneado con cámara digital
Procesado con NPL y Lightroom
North Laines Brighton
1932 Leica 11 Rollei Retro 80s @ 200 asa, stand developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 1 hour.
Scanned from the negative. Processed in Rodinal.
Olympus OM-4T
Zuiko 50mm f.1.8
Rollei Retro 80S
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