See What Happened When I redscaled Some Lomochrome Turquoise Film

See What Happened When I redscaled Some Lomochrome Turquoise Film

Way back in June I made my first redscale film, and I love it. Since then, whenever I decant some 35mm film into Rapid canisters, the odds are that at least one of the canisters will be redscaled. Just recently, I picked up some Lomochrome Turquoise film especially to decant into Rapid canisters, as that's one film stock that I've really wanted to try with a Rapid camera, so of course as well as a 'normal' decanted film, I put a length of Lomochrome Turquoise reversed in a Rapid canister. 

Redscaled films are exposed through the support layer of the film, so I added about an extra stop to get the proper exposure. Under normal conditions, Turquoise has a wide exposure latitude, from 100-400 ISO. For the redscaled Turquoise I chose to expose at the lowest rating. Hence, for ISO 100 Lomochrome Turquoise I exposed the redscaled film at ISO 50. 

Because the film is exposed through the support layer, and not directly through the emulsion the images should have a strong colour cast about them. Since Turquoise is known for being a colour shifted emulsion, the redscaled images should also have a strong colour cast, and I had hoped that redscaling this would have a pronounced effect, but I could not have imagined how it would turn out. 

There wasn't much information online about what happens when Lomochrome Turquoise is redscaled. One article (https://www.lomography.com/magazine/348376-diy-lomochrome-film-how-to-redscale) I did find, on the Lomography website, was quite revealing, though. This suggested that redscaled Turquoise would actually come put in shades of blue, which was certainly an interesting effect.

I loaded the canister of 'redscaled' Lomochrome Turquoise into the  Voigtländer Vitoret Rapid D, which gave me a 12-exposure roll of film. I took this around Oliveira do Bairro and a few days later dropped off the film at Forever Blue in Aveiro. The negatives were scanned at home with an Epson Perfection v750 Pro flat bed scanner and Epson Scan software. 

The images came out really well, in varying shades of 'bluescale'. Some were a true blue, but a lot of the photographs were a lovely steely blue. I must admit, though, while I did like the effect, I don't think it's something I'm going to do very often. I've posted the whole roll in an album (https://www.flickr.com/gp/147583812@N06/4h0E742r70) on my Flickr, if you want to see the rest of the images. 

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