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Originally Posted by IloveTLRs  Rollei has a bunch of B&W films for sale here in Japan. It comes in these nice wooden boxes. It's about $100 a box.
No one will touch it however - the store told me that Rollei recommends Rollei developer and so no photo lab will touch it. I suppose I could always dev in D-76 or something like that, but will that give different results? I've actually been quite eager to try Rollei film. |
Of course Rollei will recommend it's own developers, that way they make more money. It's just like Kodak recommending D76 over ID11.
Rollei Retro is equal to Agfa APX (but on a slightly different base) and will work fine in almost any developer; Rodinal, D76, PMK etc etc. Unfortunately, I haven't tried any of the other Rollei brand films but I doubt that they differ a lot from Maco's similar films in most cases (except for the R3).
According to Robert Vonk (FotohuisRovo), the Rollei RHS is Amaloco AM74 in a different bottle and RLS is CG-512. Click
here for more details (Photo.net).
$100 for 12 rolls seems a bit stiff, you could probably get it cheaper from Europe (even including shipping). FotohuisRovo prices 12 rolls of Retro 100 120 at €33 incl. VAT (19% or so, which you can subtract if ordering from outside the EU). Macodirekt (linked above) charges €38 (incl. VAT) for 20 rolls 120 excluding the wooden box.
Edit: Corrected spelling and Rollei developer names.