Walk in Parma: Retro 100 Tonal, Zeiss Ikon, Snapshot-Skopar

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Zeiss Ikon camera, Voigtländer Snapshot-Skopar 4/25 lens,
Rollei Retro 100 Tonal film processed with TMax developer (2nd go) and scanned with Reflecta ProScan 7200:

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rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

orio, these have a lovely tonal range, and much more contrat than ive ever gotten from this film. i absolutely love the first one.
tony

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Thank you Tony, the experience with this first roll tells me that it's not an easy film to handle. It loses blacks very soon (all B&W films do, but this one more),
and with underexposure in the shadows grain becomes intrusive.
With bright exposure, grain is very moderate. So I think this film is not probably a real ISO 100, but something like maybe an ISO 64.
I need to test again with a fresh developer, in this case I used a T-Max developer remains from the development of another roll,
I applied the extra minute recommended by Kodak but the film did not react very well, it probably would have needed half minute further more.
Only the poses that were overexposed reacted very well.
Next roll I will use the Gradual developer, which is the best developer in my opinion for developing a wide range of tones.

One thing I do not like of this film is the extreme thinness of the support. It got caught in the spiral when loading and one frame was damaged since the film got a wrinkle.
Did you experience a similar problem, and would you think that the use of a hardening fixer may help?

rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

i'm sorry orio, but i do not develop my own film, i send it out.

my experience with this film is i find it very low contrast, which is not my cup of tea. i also found its tonal range limited. thats why i commented on your results, because they were much better than mine. perhaps its because you home develop. perhaps its because you just take better pictures!
tony

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04