Redscale photo on left and edit on right
🎞️ Lomography Redscale XR
📷 Leica IIIg, 50 mm Summitar
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'Minimalistisch' - auf Rotskala und viel Schatten reduzierter Blick auf eine alte Kirche in der Stadt Zejtun auf Malta #FotoVorschlag #minimalistisch #Rotskala #Kirche #Glockenturm #Glocke #Architektur #Fotografie #Malta #Filmfotografie #Redscale #Leica #believeinfilm #photography #architecture #35mm #Zejtun

Taking A fresh Look At That Expired Redscale Film

Recently, I took a trip to Aveiro to try out the KW Patent Etui 9×12 folding camera with the Rollex 118 film back for Folder Week, a celebration of folding cameras. I also brought along an Agfa Silette Rapid F camera from the 1960s, loaded with expired (c.2002) Konica VX-100 colour film. I wanted to use the Silette for the week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, which this time was ‘Go-To Places’.

To stir things up a bit, the expired film film was redscaled, meaning that it was loaded reversed into the Rapid canister so the image is taken through the backing layer of the film. Since film, especially colour film, loses light sensitivity over time, it needs to be exposed differently to normal film. The ‘rule of thumb’ for shooting expired film is to give it one extra stop of exposure for each decade after the expiry date. But the rule for redscaling film is to give the exposure one more stop of exposure depending on the ISO of the film. So I exposed the 100 ISO film at ISO 6. 

Redscaled film generally gives the subject a high contrast orangey/red hue, but in this case, when the images came back from the lab, the colours were really mixed up. I’m not sure whether this was because the laboratory misunderstood that the film was redscaled, and tried to produce colours that are normal for colour film, or whether this was because of the colour shifting of the film. Either way, for a 20+ year-old film I was really happy with the results and submitted the images to the Challenge.

Still, I wondered why the images were so different to ‘normal’ redscale film, and even different to some expired redscale film that I’ve come across. I went back to the original scans from the lab and opened the file in SnapSeed. A little fiddling with curves and whatnot made little difference, but then I went to the white balance option and set the white balance in a white part of the image. Instantly the whole image went ‘bluescale’. Like redscale but shades of blue. So then I set the white balance dropper on a black portion of the image and, voila! Redscale.

https://flic.kr/p/2qZAdZV

I tried this with the other images in the series, and it worked with them, too. Lovely redscaled images from 20-year-old film. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, if you want to see the rest of the images, and also the original images. I’m not certain if this could be considered true redscale, or if it is cheating, but I really like how these came out and it’s encouraging me to try some more expired film, especially redscaling colour film 

https://flic.kr/p/2qZAe1r

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Hundreds of miles, six shots, one or two images. Sunnyside, WA. Lomography Redscale ISO 200.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #345: My Go-To Places

After last week’s excellent theme by Anne from Slow Shutter Speed of ‘Abandoned‘, which resulted in some fabulous posts, it was John’s turn, from Journeys with Johnbo, to host the Challenge. His was certainly a hard act to follow, but John rose to the challenge with his theme this week, ‘My Go-To Places‘. ‘Recently, I heard one of my favorite songs [and the] lyrics got me thinking about where I go when the “world starts getting me down.”’ John continued, ‘My favorite places to visit locally are the nearby parks’, and after showing some lovely images to illustrate the theme, he asked: ‘I’ve shared my Go-To places; now it’s time for you to share where you go or what you do to help lift those spirits when this old world starts getting you down’.

I’ve posted some of my Go-To places in previous Challenges, like the woods behind our house, or Oliveira do Bairro and the scrubland behind our local Lidl (that is currently inaccessible after the almost constant rain), or the city of Aveiro with its famous canals and myriad examples of street art. But I also have a few other places that I love to visit, and some Go-To places that I haven’t actually managed to visit yet.

One place that I always love visiting, and return to again and again, is the city of Aveiro. This city, near the coast in the middle of Portugal, is famous for its canals. Indeed, it is known as the Venice of Portugal (though I doubt that Venice is known as the Aveiro of Italy in return). If you’ve seen my blog, or some of my previous entries in the Challenge, odds are you’ve come across some of the places in Aveiro I visit regularly, like the bandstand, the Yacht Club, the wonderful ‘Borg cube’ of the Melia Ria hotel, and the many examples of ever-changing street art.

So today here’s something a little different. A selection of my favourite views of Aveiro taken with an Agfa Silette Rapid F camera from the 1960s loaded with expired (c.2002) Konica VX-100 colour film. The film has been redscaled, meaning that it was loaded into the Rapid canister backwards so the image is taken through the backing layer of the film.

Since film, especially colour film, loses light sensitivity over time, it needs to be exposed differently to normal film. The ‘rule of thumb’ for shooting expired film is to give it one extra stop of exposure for each decade after the expiry date. But the rule for redscaling film is to give the exposure one more stop of exposure depending on the ISO of the film. So I have exposed this 100 ISO film at ISO 6. I was going to use 12 ISO, but my Camera Meter app doesn’t have that option, so ISO 6 it is.

Redscaled film generally gives the subject a high contrast orangey/red hue, but in this case the colours were really mixed up. I’m not sure whether this was because the laboratory misunderstood that the film was redscaled, and tried to produce colours that are normal for colour film, or whether this was because of the expired colour shifting of expired film. Either way, for a 20+ year-old film I was really happy with the results. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, light leaks and all, if you want to see the rest of the images. 

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.

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Been a fabulous morning. The sun came out so I headed to Aveiro. Took the KW Patent Etui loaded with Lomography ISO 100 film for Folder Week, and the Agfa Silette Rapid F loaded with expired (c.2002) Konica VX-100 colour film exposed at ISO 6. I redscaled the Rapid film. Even found a new piece of street art.
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new blog post: redscale adventures!
https://melon.zone/blog/blog/fun/photography/2025-03-18-redscale-adventures/
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The #FrugalFilmProject, March 2025: Some Redscale Around Oliveira do Bairro

This month with the Golden Wonder (a.k.a the Welta Penti II, half-frame camera), we’ve something a little different. One of the things I’ve really enjoyed doing is making my own redscale film. If you’re unfamiliar, with redscale photography instead of taking photographs with the emulsion side of the film facing the subject, the film is reversed in the camera so that the image is taken through the backing layer.

Colour film is made up of three layers, each light-sensitive to a particular wavelength of colour: red, green and blue. The red layer is usually exposed to light after the blue and green layers, but with redscale film, where the light passes backwards through the film, what this means is that before it reaches the sensitive emulsion layers, light passes through the support layer and the red-sensitive layer first, leading to images with a strong red cast.

I had already prepared some Rapid canisters with Harman Phoenix for redscale exposure, which is simply feeding the film backwards into the canister (in a dark bag, of course). For exposure metering I used the Camera Meter app and rated the film at 50. For a change, just lately, the skies cleared and the sun came out, and I had a great couple of hours wandering around Oliveira. The only thing I did find, though, was that the film was a short offcut from the end of a roll of Harman Phoenix, so there was only about 8 exposures on the roll.

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Browns Point Lighthouse. Tacoma, WA. @miapinholecameras 6x12 Panoramic. @lomography Redscale XR at iso 200.
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More Redscale, different format -135. Raymond, WA. Olympus XA with Lomo Redscale XR at iso 200.
#photography #art #fineart #fineartphotography #ishootfilm #filmisalive #filmphotography #olympusxa #35mm #redscalefilm #redscale #bridge #landscapephoto

Having a go at Lomo Redscale XR in the Mia Pinhole Cameras 6x12. Browns Point Lighthouse. Tacoma, WA.
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Red silhouette.

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Ha tiens ? Une #redscale chez #Harman ? Je sens que je vais pas tarder à retourner dans la forêt pour un shooting...

Symmetry

Simulated redscale preset.

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