David,you definitely made that film sing.Speechless, exhaustive and thorough presentation coupled with excellent images.Hope you're well by the way.

Great video! There is some fantastic work on Rollei Retro 80S @ ISO 25 (and stand develloped in Caffenol) by Frank Wesp, that I found quite inspirational

Great review of the film. I especially liked the concentration on the development to bring out the film's characteristics and the learning curve description including a development workflow description that ensures that one learns the strengths and weaknesses of the film

Probably my favorite B&W film! so great in full sun with a red filter!

Great stuff! I was in Toronto yesterday and within an ace of picking some of this stuff up - in retrospect I'm glad I didn't; I might have messed up horribly with it before I had a chance to watch this. It almost feels like the best thing to do with it if you are a serious 35mm film photographer with a broad library of developing chemistry at your fingertips is to buy a 100ft roll at once, load short cassettes (6-12 exposures) and go play.

I really like the extreme contrast. I'm going to try it as a replacement for Tech Pan. It looks pretty close in terms of high contrast, and even a bit faster. I've used Tech Pan at between ISO 20 and 40. Usually I use a yellow or red filter on Tech Pan and get the look I'm after.

I just tried it for the first time. Used HC-110 dilution B, 8 minutes @20C - which is the new recommended time listed on the box of film itself. Strangely, this recommended time is nowhere to be found on the internet. Online still recommends 5 minutes. I had very good luck with the new, longer time. Wonderful contrast.

Great review of a great film. One of my favourites as well. One thing on developers: in my experience the film does very well with hc100 or ilford lc29. Still contrasty at times but gorgeous midtones and ultra fine grain. If only it wasnt made with a pet base (dust magnet)

Amazing quantity of useful information! Superb!

very proffesional and informative video. Excellent shots too.

you made stunning pictures,....just for testing a film. Great job!!

Very interesting info. I picked up two rolls of this sometime ago, but hadn't used it till yesterday when I ran out of my go-to bulk loaded film and was in too much of a rush to spool some more. Being overcast and an ISO 80 film didn't seem to be the best combination, but the results turned out fanastic developed in Ilford ID-11 (12.5 minutes, 1+1, 20 deg. c, @ ISO 80). I know you said that it doesn't like D76 older than a week or so, and my understanding is that D76 and ID-11 are pretty much the same, but it didn't seem to have any issues with a few months old developer. I think that because it was overcast, I didn't blow any highlights and the contrast seemed pretty natural - just enough to create visual interestest without being over to top. I think that I was lucky because normally Iprobably wouln't have grabbed this film for the conditions, but I'm so glad I did. They turned out to be really fine grained, with tons of detail and good tonal range. As you mentioned - Two of my favorite shots are 2 outdoor portraits which came out perfectly. In future, in bright sun, I may need to pull it to ISO 40 to retain details, as you've done. Thanks.

Thank you David for the great content as always.❤ Did you pull in development after shooting retro 80s at 40 iso?

I routinely expose this film 125-160, and get nice results doing a Rodinal semi-stand. It can be shot at 640- 800 and pushed with HC-110 "A", but the results look like fast film at 6400-12800 in terms of contrast, just cleaner. Interesting ultra high contrast look though. The most beautiful tones i got were with DD-X (no surprises) but the effective speed is indeed maximum 80, maybe 125 is bearable. Over than that DD-X just didn't develop it well.

I shot 2 rolls of this in 35mm. First roll produced some of the best black and white photos I have ever shot. Second roll was totally blank, not even any edge markings.

Hey David! did you tried the 400 speed version? if so what do you think about it? ps. as always,great work!

More All About Film episodes please! TMax or anything really would be great. Keep it up thanks.

I've only shot one roll of this (also at ISO 40) and mixed some infrared shots into the mix. I metered at ISO 1.5 for the IR shots and dare I say they rivaled the look of the countless rolls of Rollei IR400 I've shot.

I wonder how well low contrast Black ProMist filters would compensate for some of the overly aggressive contrast on the film. I’ve seen some stunning portraits done with this film.

Hi David, amazing video, truly helpful as always. I have a question, you mentioned that pushing this film gives too much contrast, would that be the case also at 100ISO?

When properly focused (unadjusted focuss), IR is not soft, so you're having focusing issues, therefore soft.

David thanks for your many videos,helpful! What is most similar to discontinued Kodak PlusX.PLEASE no theories, experience or research. I have gotten many answers based on ISO but very different look. Thanks,Joe

Thanks for these super comprehensive videos. I’ve shot 80s inn120 and liked it, and I’ve shot RPX 25 in 35mm and loved it. I was wanting to know if pushing RPX 25 to 100 would work ok, and looking on the internet it seems people are saying it and 80S are the same film stock. Do you know if this is true?

David, I absolutely love your All about film series, but it seems you haven't posted a new one in a long time. Would you consider doing Rollei superpan200 and Retro 400s. I think it would be great to have the whole series of Rollei IR extended films covered by your excellent series.

Thanks a lot David for this series of videos, it is super helpful. By any chance, would you have some info on reciprocity failure on this specific film stock? It's very difficult to find any kind of info about that. I read online most people use PanF reciprocity as a starting point, and I was wondering if you tried that maybe

I’m such a big fan of your videos. So, I have a question: there is an image of using Microdol as a developer where you write ‘best combination’ but then you don’t say anything about that combo in the developer section. As I normally use D-76, I’m going to buy new developer when I dive in with 80s, would you start with Microdol or Ilfosol?

Very informative, thank you.

i enjoy your videos. I am curious though as to why many of your photos are lighter on the left.

Have you ever developed it in D76 1:1 and if so at what time? Most reviews I have seen show that it was not exposed at box speed but at 40ASA. Thank you in advance; I shoot 120 via a Fuji GSW690 III and Minolta Spotmeter and print in a darkroom. Up until now Tri-X rated at 200 with the lightest yellow filter. Would it screw up the balance of this film?

Very useful, thanks! I bought 3 120 rolls a couple of weeks ago and I use Ilford ID-11 for my developing, do you know if this will have the same problems as D-76?

Thanks for another brilliant video. How do you use your DSLR with 6x6 negs, one shot or multiple shots stitched together. I have a Canon 5Dii, 55/2,8 Micro Nikkor and I’m thinking of taking 4 shots and stitching them together but would one shot be better.

Hello, David. I love your work, superb review of one of my favourite films. But i have question regarding shooting it at different ISO, how to actually shoot it at ISO 40 and 80. Until now, i have shot it at ISO 100, because thats what i can set on my camera, there is also ISO 50 (haven't tried it yet). I think this question also applies to FP4+, how do you actually shoot it at ISO 125?

Great video... very useful information. The image of my icon was taken on Rollei 80s and a Holga... it seems that I got really lucky to get right... very picky film.. I wanted to ask you about how did you get 35 mm half frame images as the ones you showed in the video ? Were they post processed only or an in-camera feature? I really like the 6x7 aspect ratio in the medium format, I always wonder if I can find a way to get in-camera shots of 24x28mm in a 35mm format (24x36)...

I have a question. I've got Rollei Retro 400S. Are all the specs and characteristics also apply to this film? Is it all different? I'm particularly interested in wider tonal spectrum that You mentioned about in Your review. Thanks.

Using the D 76 and pulling the film to 40 looked very nice. I just finished shooting my only roll on a portrait shoot. I metered at ASA80. What would you suggest as far as processing it for the best possible results. No filters were used.

I realize that this video is from 2017 ;-) BTW: Great video, love the detailed review and very much enjoyed the images. ---- I was wondering if you had any experience with developing this film with HC-110? I recently shot a roll of Rollei 80S Retro 135 and pulled it one stop (40 ISO) and developed it with HC-110 (Dil B) (4 min instead of 5 min per MDC). I absolutely loved the results.

Hi David thenks for this videos, I buy a bunch of retro 80s and you solved a lot of doubts I have. But 1 thing is not clear to me and you probably can help me. If I want to use the retro 80s with a red filter, I have a cokin square red filter that have 3 stops. So if I compensate the exposure in the shutter speed 3 stops the exposure is not ready yet?? Y hace to correct the filter factor of the film? That is 2 stops? So the correct exposure have a correction of only 1 stop? Or you have to add the stops and the correct exposure is 5 stops compensate? Thenks for your videos!!!!

I had trouble loading 80s onto plastic Patterson reels. I've developed every b/w film made by Ilford, Kodak and Foma and never once failed to get the film on the reel until this stuff. Have you heard of this problem? Do you use steel reels?

wondering if D-23 might be a option ?

Somehow I do not see most of the diagrams while you talk about them... It is just showing the example picture sideshow. Am I the only one?

Have you try Berger 4x5 or Kodak Super Double X

Perceptol? ID-11? Cours I have a bunch of those stuff...

At 9:27 Jamie from mythbusters???

Rollei is German. So the "ei" at the end is pronounced as "eye". Like in Leica.

I have an odd rollei retro 80s 35 mm how to load it i need a video

You never actually showed any of the various curves

Thanks for the video about this lovely film, David. I've been using this film since 2014/15. For the RR80 fans. I like it with with Beutler, which seem to reduce the high contrast to something more manageable without sacrificing the glorious tone of the film. Development regime - at ISO 80 - 9 min at 68 deg. F - @ 1+1+8 dilution ratio. - 45-50 seconds of initial agitation then 2 inversions at 2 min, 3, 4, 5, then at 7 min. Martin Zimelka's RR80 review is pretty good to, especially for IR-like photo examples. www.martinzimelka.com/pages/Rollei_Retro80s.html