Analog Therapy: Rollei Infrared 400 – Contax G1 – Zeiss 28mm f/2.8.

In a prior post I stated that camera gear rabbit holes are a thing. They are everywhere. How I got here:

1. Bought a leatherette for a camera.
2. Emailed Hamish a “Hey. This is neat.” note about the leatherette.
3. Hamish replied that he knows the owner, and asked that I write a 35mmc review.
4. Me: Yep. Wrote a review. Checked recent 35mmc posts.
5. I see a post about Rollei Infrared 400.
6. I now want to try Rollei Infrared 400.
7. Visits local camera shop to pick up Infrared film.
   • Chris tells me about Ilford SFX.
   • Purchased Rollei Infrared 400, Ilford SFX, and necessary filters.
   • More on how this turns out in future posts.

This is one of those posts.

After a disappointing round with my first roll of full on Infrared film, I course-corrected with the second. For my third roll of Rollei Infrared 400 I pivoted to 35mm. Bought an R72 filter and doubled the time when using Cinestill df96. As I hoped it went well. Even crossed paths with some nice local business folks that stopped me when they saw I was taking photos of downtown Durham and I hope to be working with in the future. Here are the resulting pics.

Thoughts.

A while back I wrote a post saying this was my favorite analog camera system in a blog post I wrote for KEH Spotlight. I still stand by this.

The film?

I like it and will buy it again.

Happy capturing.

-ELW