Pinhole Color Film

[henriquefz]

Hello

I'm new on pinhole photography but I make a camera and try with lomography color film iso 100 and develop at home with tetenal kit.... But the colors are strange... :/

I wonder where the problem is:

Developing with some mistake?
Or shouldn't use color film with the pinhole camera?
Or the lomo film doesn't develop with the tetenal kit correctly?

Total inconsistency between images on the same roll and taken at the same time practically

Thank you guys for any help, and sorry for the poor english :/

 

[Donald Qualls]

The greenish color between frames is due to light leaking under the edge of the film gate during exposure -- you can see some of the regular orange base of unexposed, developed C-41 film along the edges in spots. The color cast in the exposed frames is probably at least partly due to the color of the light (golden hour?), since it varies from frame to frame. A more exposed frame will tend to show stronger dye formation, also, so the bluer frame here is probably more exposed.

Exposure can be iffy with pinhole cameras (light can change while the shutter is open), and reciprocity departure of Lomography films isn't likely to be well documented -- so you have some frames that are overexposed, and some that are less exposed. You'll be able to make more sense of this once you can scan or print the negatives.

On the face of it, however, I don't think this is a development problem or a film problem; it's mostly variation in exposure.

 

[henriquefz]

Thank you Donald!

You are correct, was taken in golden hours with long exposures, I'm going to try to solve the problem of the light leak as well...
So I discard the possibility of being the wrong development that was what worried me the most because it was also the first time to develop colors in home.

Thank you very much!

 

[Donald Qualls]

I'd have suggested using a more "normal" film for your first try at home C-41, but I don't see any indication of really gross issues. Once again, once you can view these as positives, you'll be able to tell a lot more.