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My (failed) Redscale experiment

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Post by Kenneth Armstrong Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:49 pm

I had an old roll of expired Kodak Gold 800 which I swore I was going to throw out, but I decided to experiment with it instead. I decided to shoot it redscale, which is a fancy way of saying shooting the film backwards.

The base layer of C-41 colour film is a reddish-orange colour and by shooting the film backwards it essentially applies a red filter to the pictures but also exposed on the layers in the wrong order.

I read that I should overexpose by about a stop do I transferred the film into a 400 ISO canister but my shots didn't turn out, there's almost no info on the negs. This could be due to a few things, expired film, overexposing too much or improper loading into the canister (the room I did it in wasn't completely light-tight, but I tried my best to shield the film).

I'll post some examples shortly, but they didn't really turn out.
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Post by Kenneth Armstrong Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:06 pm

Here's some photos. It's not improper metering due to being in the snow because the interiors came out the same way.

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Post by Cujo Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:08 pm

After seeing the shots on the wiki page it looks like they could have turned out fairly cool. Are these slides stuck together (each shot -- they just seem disjointed for me knowing the areas - especially the Golden Dragon).

I somewhat like how funky they look like this if they would have just turned out a bit more - well they work for all but the shot of your daughter (my assumption).
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Post by Kenneth Armstrong Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:55 pm

Yah, they're 2 shots together on each row. I don't think I'll waste another roll on it, there's a few of my daughter that I look at and go "damn, too bad I didn't just shoot this straight"
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Post by Nando Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:57 am

When I first saw the thread, I assumed that you got a Redscale Elmar for your Bessa, which won't collapse fully into the camera body because of the metal shutter. It can collapse partially with a help of a stop using rubber grommets - Home Depot has rubber grommets that fit the lens barrel perfectly.

Anyway, some heavy fogging going on there. Could be the expired film (how old is it?) or perhaps a light leak when tranfering film from one cannister to another.
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Post by Kenneth Armstrong Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:26 pm

Nando wrote:Anyway, some heavy fogging going on there. Could be the expired film (how old is it?) or perhaps a light leak when tranfering film from one cannister to another.

Probably a bit of both. We have a light-tight room at work, not sure why I didn't do it in there. The film was about 5 years out.
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