Lomochrome Metropolis in the darkroom

[perkeleellinen]

Curious about this film. I shot a roll in sunlight, I'm unsure now when it was but I feel sure it was before the present crisis.

Odd film that produces green negatives. I was unsure where to start or even if I could balance the print. I suppose I wanted to see if the odd nature of this film I'd seen in scans was 'real' or a product of software. Here's my progress starting at 0M/0Y which produced a most striking print!! I proceeded with large 50cc changes for each print after the fourth decided that the best would lie somewhere between #3 and #4. Final print is on the right.

Our boy has a typical Northern European complexion and that hedge behind is deep green.

Please note these are taken with an iPad which does seem to exaggerate colour and contrast although here it seems to have subdued colour quite a bit. I'm going to look at these over the weekend and fine tune on Monday. So far it seems the odd desaturated look with a magenta cast is also there in the darkroom.

I wonder what are the origins of this film with a green base. Could it be movie film, medical or some aerial type reconnaissance film?

Hope this is helpful!

 

[perkeleellinen]

Here's another shot of the final print on the right this time with an Ektachrome super 8 box in the shot so you can see how the colours are tweaked by the iPad:

 

[Lachlan Young]

I wonder what are the origins of this film with a green base. Could it be movie film, medical or some aerial type reconnaissance film?

I understand it's made without the interlayer scavengers etc - so thats what causes the odd/ lowered saturation etc. Essentially it gives a bleach-bypass look without having to use bleach bypass.

 

[perkeleellinen]

Interesting. I wonder how the Lomo photo engineers developed it or whether they stumbled on it after a manufacturing mistake.

Two other observations: the cassette wasn't DX coded and my F80 wouldn't recognise the film - wouldn't load it at all. When I pushed the film into the take-up spool it did load but returned an error message. I had to shoot the photos with an FM2.

I shot at 100 ISO which produced quite dense negatives requiring quite long exposures. Perhaps this is a 200 ISO film.

 

[Lachlan Young]

Interesting. I wonder how the Lomo photo engineers developed it or whether they stumbled on it after a manufacturing mistake

From the way Ron/ Photo Engineer described it, it'll have been well known to Inoviscoat as a potential manufacturing mistake, thus inducible at will.

Further to that, the case could be made that essentially all of the 'weird' Lomography materials from Inoviscoat are representative of stepping stones to getting colour neg film back in production - and it helps to fund R&D in profitable steps rather than having to risk as much money up front to try and get it all correct in one go.

 

[Agulliver]

It certainly suggests that Inoviscoat could produce a decent C41 colour film if that was what they put their minds to. I tried Metropolis in 110 format and found that for some subject matter it was rather good. Shots of rocky areas of Madeira in sunlight, and actually portraits. Not a natural colour of course, but interesting.

 

[AnselMortensen]

Interesting! Thanks for posting your results. The desaturated color almost resembles a hand-tinted print...nice!
I shot a test roll of Lomochrome Purple a while ago, and it has a green base, also.
I haven't had a chance to look at the scans yet, but hope the results are as promising as what you achieved.

 

[perkeleellinen]

That's interesting that Lomochrome Purple is also green. I think the Purple might be the closest we can now get to EIR.

I think I'll try the Metropolis under indoor light to see what the cast does to it.