Back in the days of Kodachrome I really loved slide film.
There was nothing more beautiful than the bright and totally saturated colors
of Kodachrome projected up onto a screen that made the images look as big or
bigger than life. Well, Kodachrome is gone for good but the experience shooting
with sharp supersaturated color transparency film is not.
Rollei Digibase 200 is no Kodachrome but it is a very nice
film to work with. Similar in many respects to Fujichrome Velvia 100 but a full
stop faster, this slide film has a warm color palette and with it’s clear base
seems to have been designed for scanning. I can’t say that I prefer this film
to Velvia but with Kodak out of the slide film business altogether it is good
to have another choice besides the Fuji.
The photograph above was taken with a 50mm lens set at f11
and 1/125 using the Pentax ZX-7. This was on an outing that designed primarily
to shoot a roll of Portra 400 in my new (to me) Kodak Vigilant 620 folder. I
used the ZX-7’s meter to check up on my cell phone light meter app and make
sure I was using the correct exposure on the old Kodak and I shot a few of the
same compositions with both cameras for comparison. The quality of the ZX-7’s
images was clearly superior because of the better optics but the Kodak’s were actually
more impressive for having come from a 70 year old camera.
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