Rollei 80S

[sojournerphoto]

Just developed a couiple of test rolls of Rollei 80S - one in Xtol 1+2 (iso 64) for 11 minutes and one in Rodinal 1+50 (iso 64) for 10 minutes. BOth at 20C with two inversions each minute.

First impressions

+lots of resolution, low grain and sharp off the scanner.
- quite contrasty

Has anyone else use this film and how do you develop for scanning (Nikon 9000)

Cheers

Mike

 

[Phantomas]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[sojournerphoto]

Pics or it didn't happen.

In Rodinal - full frame and 100% crop of 4,000dpi scan. No sharpening, scanned as positive, gamma = 1 and then inverted in ACR with white and black points set. Mamiya 7 and 150 lens on tripod.

 

[sojournerphoto]

Pics or it didn't happen.

In Rodinal - full frame and 100% crop of 4,000dpi scan. No sharpening, scanned as positive, gamma = 1 and then inverted in ACR with white and black points set. Mamiya 7 and 150 lens on tripod.

In Xtol 1+2. Again no sharpening of 100% crop of 4,000 dpi scan from Nikon 9000 - same scan routine.

Not so keen on the whit speckles on the scan either, but any ideas on contolling highlights (yes I'll try less development next...)

Cheers

Mike

 

[Ronald_H]

How do you scan?

The software on my Nikon Coolscan V has the nasty tendency to blow out highlights for B/W scans. If I scan the same neg with Vuescan, I can squeeze much more detail from the highlights.

I struggled with this for quite a while until I figured out it wasn't a problem with my development (well, mostly not 😉)

 

[sojournerphoto]

How do you scan?

The software on my Nikon Coolscan V has the nasty tendency to blow out highlights for B/W scans. If I scan the same neg with Vuescan, I can squeeze much more detail from the highlights.

I struggled with this for quite a while until I figured out it wasn't a problem with my development (well, mostly not 😉)

These are scanned as positive using Nikon Scan - the raw histogram has space at both ends.. Perhaps I should download vuescan and silverfast trials. I'll also try reducing development by 30% and see how it looks.

I deliberately chose contrasty scenes.

Mike

 

[stephaneb]

Regarding contrat, I find the published times for all current Rollei films I tried in rodinal to be much too long. divide the published time by two as a start.

I too have the wite specks, but much less with the 80S and much more with the 400S. I find that the dust filter in Photoshop elminates them effectively without altering the rest of the image if you give the right parameters (trial and error).