wa Eid Mubarak Kareem!

Alhamdulillah, this Eid al Fitr has been a day of feasting and fellowship, with plenty of pauses to worship… or is that backwards? Maybe it’s been a day of worship, with some pauses for feasting and fellowship? Or maybe the prayer and the supplication and the feasting and the fellowship is all worship?

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Rollei RPX 100 – a review in 3 parts

Back in October 2017, I was blessed to take part in one of Dan K’s generous giveaways over on Twitter. It consisted of a gift certificate to Camera Film Photo and shipping, and I picked up a bunch of black & white film that I hadn’t tried before, including 5 rolls of Rollei RPX 100 in a Japan Camera Hunter Half Case.

I shot the first three rolls rather quickly, but sat on the last two for a few months, and by April 2018, I was all out. Will I buy more? I don’t know. Maybe. It’s a nice enough film, with pleasant grain, good tonal separation and nice contrast, but it’s a bit expensive, almost double the price of Fomapan 200 and a third more than FP4+, both of which I prefer. Still, it’s a nice enough film, and I’m glad I tried it.

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