First Rolleicord Photos

As I wrote last time, I hadn’t yet processed the photos from my Rolliecord, I’ve now since had the chance and these are a few samples from my first roll. I’ve put three rolls of film through it so far, this first roll of 400Tx, a roll of Kodak Gold 200 C-41, which is on its way to the darkroom for processing, and one very old roll of Kodak Plus-X which had to be destroyed after many failed attempts at getting it spooled up onto the processing reel. It’s times like that when I ask myself why don’t I just stick with digital, then I remind myself the processing film is fun. All of these photos were shot at ISO 320 and developed in Rodinal 1+50. These scans don’t really do the Schneider Xenar lens on the Rolleicord justice. Scanning negatives on a flat bed scanner is difficult as the negatives never seem to lay flat enough. The negatives are quite sharp and would print up much better in a wet darkroom.

Regardless, I had a lot of fun taking these pics, this camera has a charm which my Sony A7IV just doesn’t have.

Amy Jo. Portage ,MI

Old Fence. Portage Creek Bicentennial Park Trail, Portage MI

Portage Creek. Portage Creek Bicentennial Park, Portage MI