Some time ago I fell for the "Rollei"-digibase or whatever it was called film in 135 cartridge, when it was still advertised having ISO 400 - opposed to the real 200. Guess what! The results sucked. Go to some forum and complain about sucking results with your "Rollei"-film (or "Rollei"-chemistry), in 98% of all cases the user and/or his lab will get the blame.
It will usually take some more complaints and a few weeks until somebody will admit there was some qualtity problem with the merchandise ...
Go deeper, read up some reviews
http://medienfrech.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... cn200-pro/
sorry, German, but look at the pics.
One of the readers, a certain Wolf-Rainer Schmalfuß (maybe the R-BLUFF can enlighten us, who that guy may be!) complains the test is unfair, comparing ISO 100 and 200 films ... so the author added a shoutout of the 6,95 Euro per roll digibase versus the ElCheapo drugstore brand "Rossmann" (2 rolls for 1,95 Euro)
http://medienfrech.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... ere-tests/
Now this test was really unfair, the cheapish drugstore brand ISO 200 film beat the sh#t out of the digibase ...
It remained the claim digibase allows you to get "tonally correct" B&W prints ... well, without the orange masking it is easier to print B&W, but how to get "tonally correct" B&W prints from color negatives with orthocromatic paper ... beats me!
http://medienfrech.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... n-200-pro/
Anyway, I'm not a gambler, I just like straight things and to me the best surprise with any product is no surprise whatsoever.
Why should I shoot 4x4 superslides? To gain quality!
So, load Astia not some grainy outlived ISO 200 material.
Why the Luftwaffe is (supposedly) still using it? Beats me, but did anybody here ever get the impression the armed services of his country use the "best" equipment/material? Try the Luftwaffe's shoe polish ... it sucks that much, no soldier will steal it (or at least nobody will steal a second one).