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Cross processed film extravaganza

By: Nestor

20-06-2012

Buckle up ! And here we go.

I went trough most of my scanned film and picked out the various types of films I have cross processed along the way. Results always vary so I thought this would give a nice overview. Off course these results aren’t representative of all situations. Variations are depending on film lab, processing, use of expired film, time of the day, the stock market in Japan, whale routes in the Atlantic, so basically everything.

Roll 1: Fuji Sensia 100 Expired and very green shot with a Canon 500.

Roll 2: Fuji Sensia 100 Expired, much better balance in colour tones shot with light-leaky Olympus mju-2

Roll 3: Fuji Sensia 100 expired, shot with a Holga and a heavy tint of Pink/purple.

Roll 4: Fuji Provia 100 expired, shot with Golden Half and same as roll 3, a bit pink.

Roll 5: Fuji Provia 400 expired. Unlike its brother, no Pink ! Greener tint.

Roll 6: Fuji Tungsten 64, shot with Canon 500 and a hint of a blue tint, but pretty balanced.

Roll 7: Kodak Ektachrome, expired. Taken with an Olympus Trip.

Roll 8: Kodak Ektachrome, FRESH, taken with a leaky Olympus mju 2.

Roll 9: Kodak Elite Chrome, FRESH, shot with Holga, muddy looking results.

Roll 10, Lomo X-PRO 100, fresh. bit underexposed but maybe due to Sprocket Rocket.

Roll 11: Lomo X-PRO 100, fresh. Bright colors, hard contrast, current favorite xpro film.

Roll 12: AGFA CT precisa, fresh. My all time favourite but dead xpro film. Hard contrast and vibrant colours. I will miss you CT precisa ( the new version is not the same, imposter !)

Pinkplosion: Expired Xpro Provia

By: Nestor

03-06-2012

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A major part of the fun of shooting with A) Film B) a Plastic lens toy camera C) Expired film D) slidefilm which then will be developed in the “wrong” chemical process is the unpredictability. I went out and shot some expired Fuji Provia 400 slidefilm in my plastic lens Golden Half. I got the film crossprocessed and this was the result. A 4-year old girls dream where Hello Kitty and some Disney princess rubbed themselves all over my film. A Pinkplosion. Off course I make the promise to never x-pro provia again but what if the next time it won’t be all pink, but some other color? Shouldn’t I at least try and find out?

The results of trying to remove the pinkness of the image. A muddy image. Not my favorite.

Ferrania Solaris 400 Color

By: Nestor

03-02-2012

Roll of Film Review

A film review of Ferrania Solaris 400. Very little noise for a 400 negative film. Colors are well-represented and I can’t say much more than that. This only the second time I’ve shot a roll of Solaris ( the first one came packaged with my (Golden Half). This was all with my Olympus Mju2.

Cross Processed Vietnam

By: Nestor

01-02-2012

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Ninh Binh, Vietnam was amazing. Small villages, farmers working in the rice fields, little kids waving and yelling “hello” as I passed by on a bicycle one day and a scooter the other. Just a couple of hours outside of Hanoi and welcome change of pace. I brought allow my Olympus Mju2 and a roll of Lomo XPro 100. As you can see the contrast is very strong. The darks are dark and the brights are very bright. There isn’t as much of a color shift but more saturation of the colors. It reminds me alot of the old Agfa CT precisa, one of my favourite films that sadly does not exist like that anymore.

For those too lazy a chunk of text

Pros: 1) No typical Xpro color shift 2) Saturation 3) contrast

Cons 1) Expensive 2) Really hard contrast easy to blow out highlights

I’m surprised the Lomo marketing department didn’t do anything more excitement with their container design. I like their other designs and I’m kinda surprised they kept this one so simple. I like minimalistic (check out this blog design) but this is bordering almost on the boring. But in the end it does not effect the photo’s in any way, shape or form, so I don’t know what I am babbling about.

The only photo in this series not taking in Ninh Binh but in Hanoi. I loved these daily used train tracks going through busy parts of the city.

My fellow travel mates I met in Ninh Binh; Two French guys and a German girl.

Fuji Provia 400 Slidefilm

By: Nestor

24-12-2011

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I shot this roll of expired Fuji Provia 400 with the intention of crossprocessing it but thinking back to the heavy green tinted images of those xpro images I decided to develop it as slide film. These were shot in my Olympus mju2 camera. The results were quite underexposed with a tint of blue to them. This was not what I had expected and I wasn’t really impressed with it. It could be due to the fact that the roll was expired and I never refrigerate my film. I did some photo editing on them, but it still wasn’t what I was expecting out of slidefilm.

Singapore Chinatown Beer Lady.

Prosthetics store in Seoul, South Korea

Samgyeopsal in Jejudo South Korea. Grilled pork belly.

Bored at Chinatown Hawker Center

Kodak Ektachrome E100S XPRO

By: Nestor

22-12-2011

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Accoring to Wikipedia Cross processing (sometimes abbreviated to Xpro) is the procedure of deliberately processing photographic film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film.

This normally means taking slidefilm (E-6) film and developing it as if it was regular negative film. This results in shifted colors and stronger contrast.

So why would any sane person do this?

1) It’s fun and unpredictable. You never truly know what you will get. Especially if you throw expired film into the mix
2) Developing as slidefilm is more expensive, so its actually cheaper to develop as slide film is you are able to find a lab

The following photo’s were taken with my Holga and Kodak Ektachrome E100S. This was then crossprocessed and scanned to show the sprockets. And the results are uh, well uh, green. Kermit-the-frog-exploded-in-my-camera-green. In my past experience the green shift has never been this strong with Ektachrome, but in this case it went all the way.

On the left is hotel I stay at for business in New Jersey and on the right is an abandoned housing complex in Singapore now used by the military for practice urban warefare.

Flying over Chicago after the midwest.

Kodak Ultramax 400

By: Nestor

21-10-2011

Roll of Film Review

Kodak Ultramax 400 color film. Taken with my Canon SLR on a trip to Beijing. Very nice colors, not as much grain as other 400 color films. Maybe my favorite color 400 film along side AgfaVista 400.

Beijing is a wonderful place for photography, highly recommended. It is also a huge place, so much walking to be done. Or you could always get a bicycle.

I don’t like the name Ultramax 400 though, seems like a rookie marketing department thinking of something exxxxtreme.

Kodak 200 Gold

By: Nestor

14-10-2011

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My girlfriend gave my a bunch of these film she found back at her home. Kodak 200 Gold Korea color negative expired film. I quickly ran through a roll with my SLR and I was surprised at the vibrant color this expired roll was able to give me. The only downside is that this roll is for 27 exposures and at the photolab they charged me for 36.

These were all taken in a place called Bugis. My favorite photolab is located there, so the last few shots of most rolls are taken there. Its a vibrant area with an interesting atmosphere, I like it more than the usual big brand fancy shopping malls in Orchard. Where else can you see a older dude practice caligraphy with his feet while upside down?

The following were taken during a trip to Bejing with my parents. Again the film delivers. This was not expired film, but a fresh roll, straight from the oven.

I love how vibrant the blue of her coat is.

These were taking in the 798 art district in Bejijng. An awesome place to walk around and sicover. I wish every city had a place like this.

Lucky 100 SHD BW

By: Nestor

14-10-2011

Roll of Film Review

Lucky 100 SHD Black and White film all the way from China. Google told me it’s specifically produced in Baoding in the Hebei province. Wiki then told me that those metal balls people move around in one hand that you find in Asian gift in the west are actually originally from Baoding and also carry its name and then twitter told me to shut up

So moving on, this is a very affordable film (=cheap). It works well, normal exposure, fine tones, not grainy (shouldn’t be since its 100 film).
Nice and cheap, what’s not to like?

The photo’s were shot with my Olympus mju II or Epic Stylus for you ‘mericans or µ2 for you perfectionists out there.

Kodak Ektacolor 160 (120 film)

By: Nestor

14-10-2011

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Kodak Ektacolor 160 as 120 film. This is medium format film which I used in my Lubitel 2. I still have issues exposing manually with my Lubitel 2 and this may be reflected in the pictures taken. Overall, more muted colors then I am used to. Also a bit grainy, but this may be due to the scanning of the lab I used. When I settle down and get a scanner, I will rescan these and see what they really look like.

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Cross processed film extravaganza

Pinkplosion: Expired Xpro Provia

Ferrania Solaris 400 Color

Cross Processed Vietnam

Fuji Provia 400 Slidefilm

Kodak Ektachrome E100S XPRO

Kodak Ultramax 400

Kodak 200 Gold

Lucky 100 SHD BW

Kodak Ektacolor 160 (120 film)

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