I was playing with my new to me Olympus OM-4 and some film I picked up at the APUG Conference from JandC Photo. It's called Adox 100 formerly Efke, the film is made in Croatia and has a high silver content, the way they used to make film. I used HC110 developer with an unnoffical dilution designated H. It is half strength of dilution B for those interested in knowing and I timed it for 11 minutes. I am really growing to love this film, it has a really nice snap to it. It also helps to have an orange or yellow filter on the lens. Adox/Efke is available I think as slow as asa 25 and only through JandC Photo out of Kansas.
Rollei 35, Rollei RPX 100 on the October Photo Walk
I got all three of my Rollei 35's serviced recently by @lensmedicyyc and packed the one with the 40 F3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens which is magical for black and white films. I went meta with Rollei RPX 100, because, why not? The Rollei 35 to recap is a very compact zone focus camera, first made in Germany, then production in Singapore in the early 1970s. They came with the 40 f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens wich as mentioend above great for black and white film, the 40 F2.8 which has always been made in Singapore, made for colour film and a limited production of Schneider Xenar 40 F3.5 lens in the early 1970s. The camera due to its design is ass backwards with loading from right to left which makes scanning the negatives a treat as you have to start at the end of the roll and go to the beginning. Zone focusing takes some practice but it's not hard to get the hang, just make sure you check to see the measurement is in feet or metres, that will matter, a lot. That said, I love my Rollei 35
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