First look at Rollei Pan 25

[thafred]

One of my best friends gave me the perfect birthday present this year.. a nice wooden box filled with 10 Rolls of Rollei Pan 25!
I´ve just enlarged some of the neg´s yesterday and I´m quite surprised by the resolution this film offers so I thought I´d share my expereince...

The film has a very clear base which helps with scanning IMO but it curls pretty nasty. since I had nothing other at hand I developed in my standard soup which is Rodinal 1:100 for 20min /20°C .. from observing the neg´s it looks like it´s underdeveloped/underexposed a little but the Tonality is very fine nevertheless.

The examples are from the Scan I did with my Minolta DS IV and it should be noted that the grain is less prominent in the prints from my V35 also a bit more definition of fine detail can be observed on the wet print.
(other dev should give better grain anyways...I´m geting a few ampulles of Neofin Blue soon!)

the picture is boring per se but i think it shows what this film is capable of.
Handheld with Leica M6 and collapsible Summicron @ 5,6 1/250

Whole view:

100% crop (no unsharp mask):

 

[thafred]

I finaly came home from work and had time to scan some other negs. This one is from the vc Skopar 21/4...sharp as a razor blade 😉

100% detail attached

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm going to say this and I don't want everyone getting excited. Keep calm. You may want to sit down. I don't even know that it's true, so don't get your hopes up or anything.

I've heard rumors that Rollei is cutting and packaging the rest of Agfa stock, meaning that there is a good chance that this may be APX 25. Someone should do some tests.

This is only a rumor and if someone finds out that it's true I may end up buying a bit of this film. 😉