Rollei Film Archives

23 April, 2025

5 Rushed Frames with a Canon EOS3 and an EF 14mm f/2.8L ii.

By Richard Becker

A day when everything happened unplanned. While developing some films for my son I had trouble loading the reel; was it me? the reel? the film? the camera? I had recently bought...

6 March, 2025

5 Frames with a Rolleiflex 3.5F and Rollei Pan 25 in Tretower Castle

By Ibraar Hussain

I remember one day, I walked into a camera store near the British Museum and handled a Rolleiflex for the first time. It felt precious, a marvelous piece of mechanical engineeri...

30 November, 2024

Shooting in a cemetery leads to uncovering a local tragedy (and then another). Dangerous currents.

By Keith Drysdale

In 2022 I visited the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin at Horton near Blyth to shoot one of my favourite subjects – memorial stones. There has been a church on this site s...

A monument depicting a soldier holding a rifle and bayonet.

7 November, 2024

People’s Park Chengdu with an Olympus XA3 and expired Rollei RPX 400

By Howard Mitchell

I’m lucky enough to be able to spend a couple of months in Chengdu, China each year as part of my job and usually stay in the central part of town. I take a different film camer...

1 October, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta 16MG and Rollei RPX 25

By Tony Warren

After reading an interesting post from Geoff Chaplin about processing 35mm Rollei RPX 25 in 1:100 Rodinal semi-stand rated at ISO 100 I thought it could be a good match for 16mm...

28 September, 2024

A Full Roll of Flowing Water with a Moscow 4

By Richard Becker

My success rate with the Moskva (Moscow) 4 camera I bought a year or so ago has not been good. Until recently only a few times have I managed to get even half a roll of useable ...

Mamiya C330 with a box of Rollei Infrared film

13 July, 2024

5 Frames with a Mamiya C330 and Rollei Infrared film

By James Billings

It’s only over the past 12 months or so that I’ve rediscovered film photography. Back when I was in college, it was the only option – I’m old enough to pre-date digital &#...

4 July, 2024

5 Frames with Rollei Superpan 200 and a Minolta 460Tx 110

By Tony Warren

I really enjoy using 16mm film and I now have three cameras taking this stock, one 16mm and two 110 of Minolta and Pentax manufacture. My favourite film so far is Rollei’s Super...

Dave Powell on Ansco Titan – A Stylish 6×6 120 Folder
Thanks my friend! And yes, I was much too careful bracketing my shots. It was before I got into bulk…
Jeffery Luhn on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Pentax made some solid cameras, especially the Spotmatic. My negative files from the 1970s are loaded with sharp images from…
Eric Rose on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Love your photos and story. The Pentax Spotmatic is and always will be an iconic camera. The 28mm lens is…

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