New ISO 800/30° CN film possible - if you want

Alex Bishop-Thorpe

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4x5"? Dang, I'll take a few boxes. And 35mm as well - I never shot much high speed colour but I'd be happy to put my money down on this for some experimentation.

I've used plenty of Kodak Hawkeye Surveillance film, on the polyester base, and it's never done any harm to any of my cameras. Actually I've never had a situation where the sprocket holes ripped on a normal roll of film either, so to my experience the risk seems minimal.
 

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keithwms said:
4x5 800 film?! I'm in! When will it be available?
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Hi Keith,

I guess you don't speak german and therefore hesitated to contact Maco / Rollei-Film. I was curios about the new films, too. Therefore I have asked the people at Rollei-Film (it is no problem to contact them in English).

They told me the shipment dates:

Retro 80S (BW negative film with clear base, excellent for reversal processing, and with extended red sensivity - IR) has already been available in 35mm and 30,5m bulkroll for almost six months now.
In 127 and 120 it will be available from middle of next week.

Rollei Digibase CN 800 color negative film will be available from the beginning of September in 35mm, 30,5m bulkroll, 127, 120 and 4x5 sheet film.
Also in an SUC reverse spooled as Redbird / Redscale version.

Rollei CR200 slide film will also be available in 127 (4x4 Super-Slide) at the end of the year.

I hope these informations are helpful for you.
 

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4x5 800 speed color sheet film? Heavens be praised!!! Time to bust out the Speed for a lot more things than I can normally use it for. 127 is a nice bit of icing on top of the cake as well.
 

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Back in the 90's and early 0's a local photo store did heavy business with Agfa. They used Agfa processing machines and sold 3-packs of Agfa's 200 speed color print film. I was always disappointed with this film's graininess and eventually stopped using it and all Agfa films. If this Agfa 800 speed film shows the typical grain increase that films show as they increase in speed, and recalling how horrible the grain was in Agfa's 200 speed film, there's little chance I'd buy it. OTOH if it's like (or better than) the more recent offerings from Kodak and Fuji I'd certainly try it...

I'd try it anyway, to be honest. Just to see what it's like. But I'd only keep using it if it had decent enough grain.
 

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Film-Niko said:
Hi Keith,

I guess you don't speak german and therefore hesitated to contact Maco / Rollei-Film. I was curios about the new films, too. Therefore I have asked the people at Rollei-Film (it is no problem to contact them in English).
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Oh, thanks. Actually I speak German fluently but didn't see that link

I have bought various things from them before. Some things have impressed me greatly, others have not.

Anyway, thanks!
 

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Well, yes...

They call it `Nightbird´ as they use it as a higher speed alternative to their Redbird film. So it is spooled twisted, but edge-marked correctly. But if you twist it again you'll have that 800ISO CN film, though with a weird edge-marking.

Types 135-36, 120, 127 are stated to be released in october.

No news on regularly spooled conversions and the sheetfilm though.
 

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I hope that Rollei also releases normally spooled 800 speed film. It's not that difficult to spool the film the other way and make normal film. Hopefully this is just another product announcement, and not what we were promised.
 

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Holy crap, 800 speed color neg in 4x5? I want some! If it's digibase, even better, I'll cross it to e6
 

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EASmithV said:
Holy crap, 800 speed color neg in 4x5? I want some! If it's digibase, even better, I'll cross it to e6
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It´s a masked film.
Agfa only manufactures 100 and 400 ISO maskless films.
 
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