Redscale - A follow up post

If nowt else there is a blog post on the perils of expired C41.. Sometimes you hit the jackpot but other times...

Dave Whenham

When carrying out photography using experimental techniques with expired film and a LOMO LC-A camera, the results are definitely not guaranteed. Recently after rediscovering some Redscale negatives in my archive, I decided to write a blog on how to make Redscale film at home. 

Redscale-film

As I had a trip to London lined up, I compounded the folly by rolling some Redscale and loading it into a LOMO LC-A.  The first roll was expired but boxed and otherwise "new". This first roll was a roll of Kodak UltraMax 400.  Crucially, as it turned out, the provenance was known.

The second roll was a "found" roll of Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. This roll was vintage 2008/9 and was purchased from 7dayshop.com.  "Found in a box of junk that had all sorts of stuff added the day I moved house. It turns out that the Fujifilm had been exposed normally before at some dim and distant time in the past.  I then made a roll of Redscale out of it.  The results were, um, "interesting".

So beware of rolls of film of unknown provenance.

Or as Dave says "Crimp your shot 35mm"

Thanks to Dave Whenham for providing the processing and scanning services for the C41 films.  His patience is appreciated.

In any case, keeping records might prove useful.

Enjoy the Keepers from the UltraMax.

Natural History Museum

South Kensington with a genuine London bus

Natural History Museum

Street photography in Redscale

Tube station overground