The #FrugalFilmProject, March 2025: Some Redscale Around Oliveira do Bairro

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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