color film Lomography Elacsder (Redscale)

[removedacct2]

Elacsder is my name for Lomography Redscale (XR 50-200) reversed...

I have this box of 3x in 120 that was part of a bunch of other C41 rolls i bought second hand.
I shot one roll at iso 50 just to have an idea, and discovered that the predictability of some result I can have in mind is not easy, will require quite some rolls in order to become familiar with the tweaks and capabilities.

I spot often Lomography Redscale resold cheap by these hipsters who were caught in the "lomography" trend, gave a try for fun then sell their Diana or Holga and boxes of film.

if I don't have time nor the occasion to play with that film, what to do? It could happen also that i want to shoot some colour but forgot to replenish my foto-fridge and all I have is a roll of Redscale...

this film is in fact a regular color one, but rolled up with the side inverted/reverted or whatever better verb describes this in english.
So I took one roll, I picked an empty roll ie,. a spool with backing paper (I always keep spools and paper) and in the tweaked bathroom that I use for loading films on spirals and tanks and other film manipulations, I remove the film, turn it on its other side, tape it on the backing paper and roll it, paying attention to not damage it, while it is kept in order to overcome the curl acquired. (can do this reusing its own backing paper of course but I find it easier with another one)

so now the Redscale has become a regular colour film, but I have no idea what manufacturer and model. Lomography do use these days some Fuji, the negatives have CN-100, CN-400 markings.
i grabbed the Horseman with a 6x9 back and shot at iso 100.

developed in freshly mixed C41 dev. Unfortunately I had a small accidental contamination in the water I used for washing after the dev and before the bleach (i do dev-bleach-fix, not dev-blix), it shows most in the last of the pictures loaded here.

 

[Wallendo]

This seems to be a good use for "Redscale" film.

I tried shooting a few rolls of this, but my images were much more likely to be muddy brown than red so I quickly lost interest.

 

[brbo]

It is believed to be the same as Lomography Color Negative 400 (which is an older Kodak 400 emulsion).

 

[removedacct2]

It is believed to be the same as Lomography Color Negative 400 (which is an older Kodak 400 emulsion).

interesting, I will shoot other rolls at iso 200 or 400 and see, instead of the iso 100 used there. I developed two rolls of Lomography-400 last week but I think they were couple years old, and had the CN-400 coding, so I believed it was a Fuji:

not so important, can be of practical use when saving inversion settings for further processings.

 

[removedacct2]

This seems to be a good use for "Redscale" film.

I tried shooting a few rolls of this, but my images were much more likely to be muddy brown than red so I quickly lost interest.

the other day I did shoot my first roll at iso 50 , as I wanted to avoid harsh red, two first pictures here were under cloudysky, last one under much brighter sky. Not sure what for I would use that film, I tried diverse modifications of curves, colour balance, etc, but I think I need to shoot a lot of it in order to know what kind of picture I will get, what tweaks are possible in post-proc.

so instead I decided to unwind and rewind on its other "correct" side, the next roll