Doug,

for pictures, just google "Rollei Retro 80S" or Flickr. I like the high contrast at low grain. The extended red sensitivity lets furthermore skys and skin look more beautiful. A good article about this film can be found here:
aurelien.le-duc.perso.neuf.fr/Photo/The%20Rollei%20RETRO%2080s.pdf

For some legal reasons, Agfa does not produce film by the name "Agfa" anymore, but they are still the same people and machines. Agfa films are now using the brand names Rollei or Adox. Agfa bought Perutz already in 1964.

Just a guess, but similar things might happen to Kodak some day as well. They might separate the film department ... or better, the company needs to go officially bankrupt first. After that happened to Agfa, employers could basically buy the machines and stuff from the bankrupt's assets for nothing ... and simply continue their work.

In reality, the legal procedures are of course a little bit more complicated, but explained in an easy way, if a company goes bankrupt, its official value is basically zero ... or more often "minus". Would somebody buy the company, he would also have to assume its liabilities, but waiting for a while, until the equipment ( machines, etc. ) is declared as "junk", people can use it by a completely different company name and avoid that. An old business trick

Aaaaaah ... Chris ... YES ... and I disassembled the whole camera into pieces ... and haven't discovered THAT. I feel deeply ashamed. Maybe I should start a different hobby ... collecting stamps or so

Thanks a lot for that hint

Mickey ... what does "SHIMS" mean ? S-hould H-ave I-magined M-ore S-imple ? If so, you have been right

Thanks so much Dave !!! Good link, Doug. Maybe, we should open a new thread for exchanging good suppliers. Not a bad idea sometimes, ordering stuff even from overseas. Not worthy for 1-2 items but there can be benefits. The link, I shared above, Fotoimpex, for example. You need to pay shipping costs ... but on the other side, they don't charge you the domestic consumers tax if you order from overseas. That means, that up from app. 100 USD, you get everything even for a better price than if you would order from Germany ( including shipping costs ). Weird but interesting

Thanks John. Good link. The unfortunate thing it is always just, that it basically only worth ordering a lot of things, because the shipping costs keep being the same. One film cassette: 0,95 USD, shipping to Japan: 40 USD, which is not really a realistic price for sending something like a film cassette to Japan. Should fit into an envelope and be something like 2-3 USD or so

Sometimes, I order stuff from this supplier: www.fotoimpex.de/anglicus/index.html They do have a lot of rare film types, chemicals and stuff ... but unfortunately not film cassettes. The shipping cost issue is the same there, but what I do is "collecting" things I need for the next order. One film or a hundred films doesn't make any difference.

Those shipping costs calculations are a little bit strange sometimes and not really motivating for placing smaller orders. An exception is this shop: www.film09en.com/ They don't have a lot stuff, but I ordered some cheap B/W 120 films there. It seems, that they have branches in US and Korea ( for Asia ) and are shipping for a reasonable price to Japan as well.

But thanks anyway. I'll keep that shop in mind. Maybe I will need more or other things from there some day. Always good to know, where to get something.

Dave, that would be of course fantastic. I would actually just need one, because the guy in the photo shop in my neighbourhood told me, that he will give it back to me. Most of those small shops ( or even the big ones ) are developing the film directly in the shop ( that's why you can get the film developed within 30 minutes ). They can only do it for the C41 process though, but that would be fine.

The machines need the cassettes but don't destroy them. As it has been explained to me, the film will be automatically cut from the end and the canister spit out again. So, he can give it back to me. The canister is obviuosly just needed for inserting/fixing the film into this special machine.

Mickey, I heard, that it isn't that difficult ... but those developing tanks are not really cheap ( as I checked ) plus all the chemicals just for developing one test film ? I often thought about starting to develop film by myself, but the thing is, that I like to use many different film types. Every film type has its plus and minus and I like the variation. Except simple B/W film, most of those films require a special process or chemicals ... and some experience of course. So, I found it more convenient, just giving them to a lab than starting to buy all the chemicals for each film type and learning how to do it.

However, I get trapped myself sometimes. Have been so happy for the chance of using B/W slide film again for the first time after 20 years ... and can't find a lab anymore, which is capable and/or willing to develope it for me As I remember, things have been easier long time ago. We had a system in Germany, where every film ( which requires a special development, even just E6 ) has been sold with an envelope. You didn't even need to stamp it. Just put it into a letter box and it came back developed by mail to your home. Those films had to travel far ways sometimes. I also remember for example, that all Kodak 8 mm films have been developed in the US ... and sent back to Europe later. Amazing service. Well ... no wonder, that Kodak is going bankrupt Okay ... bad joke

Hahaha ... awesome !!!