Home Made Redscale

[Brian Moore]

I took an empty 35mm cassette and loaded it with Rite Aid 400 film (re-branded Fuji), except that I wound the film backwards so as to shoot through the base layer, thus making the film "redscale."

I shot the roll 2 stops over-exposed (instead of box speed--400 ASA--I metered it for 100 ASA). This produced a very yellow tint to the images. (Not all of them, since I was manipulating my exposure settings so some images weren't a full two stops over.)

In some instances I got a look that very much reminded me of 1960's color prints that had faded.

Next time I will shoot just 1 stop over.

 

[Pete Askew]

Now I like that a lot. It seems to give a sort of low contrast cross-process effect. Nice experiment Brian.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I want to try this soooo badly!

I love that shot!!

 

[Brian Moore]

Now I like that a lot. It seems to give a sort of low contrast cross-process effect. Nice experiment Brian.

Thanks, Pete. Much obliged!

 

[Brian Moore]

I want to try this soooo badly!

I love that shot!!

Thanks, Hamish!

Its very simple.
1. Cut the leader off a roll of film.
2. Use tape to splice the (now straight) edge of the film onto the remainder piece of film sticking out of an old cassette.
3. Make sure you spliced it so that the back of the new film is matched to the front of the old film.
4. Place the two cassettes inside a changing bag and wind the new film into the old cassette.
5. Stop when you feel resistance.
6. Remove the cassettes from the changing bag and cut the film (But leave enough remainder so that you can use the now empty cassette for your next roll of red scale.)
7. Cut a "leader" at the leading edge of your now redscale film.
8. If you're using a DX coded canister for the redscale film as well as a camera that reads DX coding, you may wish to put some tape over the DX code area of the canister so the camera can't read it, then set the ASA manually to one or two stops over-exposed.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Cool idea and pics Brian. Before I opened the thread I thought for sure you were going to do a beer bottle lens like this guy... http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns4.htm

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Brian. Hamish, if you want to try it I have some re-useable canisters that you can have.

Nice find Glenn.

 

[Brian Moore]

Cool idea and pics Brian. Before I opened the thread I thought for sure you were going to do a beer bottle lens like this guy... http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns4.htm

Thanks for the comments and the link Glenn. (You can read that stuff?)

 

[Pete Askew]

I'm very surprised that they use old beer bottle as lenses in Finland. Surely it would be cheaper just to buy a lens!

 

[Brian Moore]

I'm very surprised that they use old beer bottle as lenses in Finland. Surely it would be cheaper just to buy a lens!

Seems like a terrible waste of a beer bottle, too.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Thanks for the comments and the link Glenn. (You can read that stuff?)

Are you kidding...can't you tell I have trouble with English?

 

[Brian Moore]

Are you kidding...can't you tell I have trouble with English?

Well,...I always try to be polite in my posts.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Thanks Pete! I've had a crack my self ... Seemingly successfully ...

Rolled some fuji superior 400 into a 200 coded canister

 

[Hamish Gill]

Thanks Brian btw, that was a lot easier than my brain would allow it to be

 

[Pete Askew]

Good man! How's the Color Implosion going?!

 

[Hamish Gill]

About half way the ought the roll now ... Wish I'd out it in one of my little compacts. Was thinking of reloading it ...

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Brian - you're a genius!

 

[Brian Moore]

Brian - you're a genius!

No I'm not. I just like IPAs.

Also, I read about how to make the redscale. Nothing geniusy aboot it, Chris.

 

[Hamish Gill]

What's genius at the people who charge a premium for it!

 

[Glenn Clabo]

No I'm not. I just like IPAs.

"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius" (Simone de Beauvoir)
Some would say it's an acquired taste... so stop putting down the rest of us geniuses in training!