Rollei announces new "Vario Chrome" ISO 200-400 slide film

[twelvetone12]

I've seen some more examples on the 'net and it seems this film has the capacity to make you think its always a rainy day, looks very expired much past its prime time. What a shame.

 

[trendland]

I've seen some more examples on the 'net and it seems this film has the capacity to make you think its always a rainy day, looks very expired much past its prime time. What a shame.

No worry about this - everyone who made his own thoughts did not expext any diferent thing from this emulsion.
Just the therm "Various speed" in concern to E6 films is telling everything !
May be you will have real various speed due to overstored Film stock.
But in addition you also have :
Various grain and various color shifts.
Perhaps you also will have various developing times - various delutions allways outsite E6 specifications.
So this could be a film to real darkroom experts to get possible results.
But expired films from ebay do this job also : TO BITE ONE'S TEETH IN DARKROOM WITH SPECIAL E6 SOUP BY COLOR CORECTION.

with regards

PS : A good film at all to experiments to a total price at about $ 11,95 (a 30,5 M roll)
........hmm what is the price a simple 135-36 film again???

 

[trendland]

My take on this is that it IS old stock from wherever - it doesn't matter. However they have shed load left over so they have re-branded it to get rid of it. A bit like selling off last years designer clothing under a new name! Not for me I'm afraid I much prefer decent stuff when the processing costs so much.

Coming from wherever is a good beginning to ask from where and to state
what caracteristics could this stuff have.
I wonder about sources of old agfa films
after so many years.
But I remember military use of films (allways agfa brands).......
This big canisters to single aereal film
contains the equivalent of hundreds 135 rolls.
The possible simple anchestry should be
an air-force cool storage space.
With 8 lonely pallets from 176 never used
aereal films.
May be RS 1000...... (never used a single time to air reconnaissance).......
But todays best offer as "various speed"
...
with regards

PS : It is a real blame to stop so much
ecxellent E6 emulsions from produktion.
But it is a real SHAME to make this kind of business with scratch.

 

[trendland]

For a long time that was Maco's business model, up to acquiring the right to use the Rollei brand.

Quite right - but we should state : There were some films between with low price and good quality !
Todays is the opposite ?

with regards

PS : Hoping Kodak will end this drama soon.