"Rollei" Redbird film

[retro]

New C-41 color film announced with unusual properties:

http://www.photographyblog.com/news/rollei_redbird/

 

[Mark Wood]

Available at "Ars-imago". Sounds appropriate!

 

[Roger Hicks]

Colour rendition is affected by shutter speed but not by overall exposure, eh? Sounds intriguing. Presumably it's either respooled aerial film of some kind (wouldn't be the first time Rollei/Maco has done that) or something even weirder. Or maybe it was designed to be exposed through the base?

Cheers,

Roger

 

[Mark Wood]

....Or maybe it was designed to be exposed through the base?

Weren't the Lomography lot touting something very similar a few months ago, which was basically colour negative film spooled with the emulsion side out?

 

[Mark Wood]

Weren't the Lomography lot touting something very similar a few months ago, which was basically colour negative film spooled with the emulsion side out?

Just checked, it's on their website, called "Redscale"

 

[dmr]

That's just plain old film spooled backwards.

I tried it -- once. Probably never again.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Thanks for the references. Lomography ADMITS it's ordinary film spooled backwards -- and as far as I can see, it's $15 a roll. Presumably it will go up in price when it's out of date as it will then be even worse!

Cheers,

R.

 

[bmattock]

Franke & Heidecke is bankrupt. They have 18 employees left, and are expected to cease operations entirely at the end of July.

This is just the brand name 'Rollei' licensed to someone else.