Orwo Film Archives

11 July, 2022

Update from Orwo on New Colour C41 Cine Film!

By Molly Kate

The new colour film from Orwo is one final step closer to being sent out into the wider world of hungry film photographers. Orwo confirmed that production started on the Wolfen ...

1 January, 2017

Orwo film – The Magic of a forgotten giant – by Eric “kAAs” Sluis

By Eric 'Kaas' Sluis

Today I would like to take you on a voyage into the post-war film industry of Germany and specifically the DDR, East-Germany with a look back at the history and films or Orwo. M...

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Jeffery Luhn on Konica Infrared Film – Second Try a Year Later22/10/2026
Mark, Striking images! I've always used an 87 or other opaque filter. That takes Rollei IR film down to ISO…
Jeffery Luhn on 5 Frames with a Minolta CLE – The Myth of the Straight Line22/10/2026
Yuan, Thanks for the entertaining article with good pix. My favorite sentence: "I could have theoretically bypassed the entire rangefinder…
Eric Rose on 5 Frames with a Minolta CLE – The Myth of the Straight Line22/10/2026
Back when the CLE first came out I instantly fell in love with it. Unfortunately at the time I couldn't…
Michael Zwicky-Ross on Fixing my Second Konica Auto S222/10/2026
Well said Walter. I'm definitely not lending this one to the family!
Graham Line on 5 Frames with a Minolta CLE – The Myth of the Straight Line22/10/2026
When I bought my CLE in the mid-90s, local Leica mandarins assured me the electronics would explode in my hand…

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