See what happened when I redscaled Harman Phoenix film

Finally. See what happened when I redscaled Harman Phoenix film.

Way back in June I made my first redscale film. Before then I had bought Lomography Redscale film but I'd always been a little disappointed with the result. The film I chose to redscale was Harman Phoenix, described as a high contrast film with strong, visible grain It is also known to give an orange/red cast with strong greens.

Because I exposed through the support of the film I added about an extra two stops to get the proper exposure. Hence for ISO 200 Harman Phoenix I exposed the redscaled film at ISO 50. It took several months, but I finally used the whole film and took it to the lab. I was a little apprehensive about how it would come out, but I needn't have worried, the results were awesome (even if I say so myself).

Because the film is exposed through the support layer and not directly through the emulsion the ideal redscale images should have a strong orange/red colour about them. Since Phoenix is known for being slightly colour shifted towards the red end of the spectrum I had hoped that redscaled this would have an even more pronounced effect, but I could not have imagined how well it would turn out. Rather than showing the whole roll I have shown just a few examples. If you want to see all of the images they can be found on my Flickr here (https://www.flickr.com/gp/147583812@N06/9fe08vPAbW).

I should add that the Lomo Smena 8M that I used for this experiment worked flawlessly and the results were outstanding. I remembered to set the focus properly, most of the time, and although there were a couple of double exposures it worked beautifully. The Smena 8M is like Marmite, people either love it or hate it, but at the moment it's my favourite 35mm camera.

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