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Rollei Retro 80 S

22 October, 2025

Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s

By Ibraar Hussain

It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...
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15 October, 2025

Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.

By Ibraar Hussain

I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...
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13 January, 2025

Exploring Analogue Photography in Bad Tölz: A Walk with the Rollei 35 S

By Jens

Nestled in the picturesque Isar Valley, Bad Tölz is a charming town just south of Munich, flanked by Lake Tegernsee and Lake Starnberg. Far from the name suggesting anything ...
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7 September, 2022

Up and Down the Old Lincoln Highway in Reno – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

Highway 50 runs pretty much across the middle of Nevada, where it's billed as "the loneliest highway in America" and there are parts of it which certainly fit that description. ...
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18 June, 2022

5 Frames with the Zeiss (Ikon) Contina 1 (522/24) – by Simon Foale

By Simon Foale

One of the enjoyable aspects of sites like 35mmc, Emulsive, and other places where analogue photography continues to be explored and celebrated in the age of unrelenting advance...
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26 February, 2020

Rollei 135 Film – Experiments with Three Stocks – by Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Rolleiflex is a brand that is associated with photography cameras, in particular medium frame film cameras. Rolleiflex has a fairly complicated corporate history (see wikipedia)...
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