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So let me tell you all very bluntly, I torrent like it’s nobodys business. Am I a bad person? I dare say no! Torrenting, for those who might not know, is something that I’ve heard takes up 85% of the internet’s bandwidth. I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but regardless. Torrenting is a [...]
I just bought some Lomography Redscale film rated 50-200 ISO. Lomography Redscale Film (to be further abreviated as “Lomo RS”) is a color negative film processed regularly in C-41 and possibly ( although I haven’t tried it with this film and don’t really recommend it,) Cross-processed in E-6.
Like most Redscale films, at it’s rated ISO of 200, it creates dreamy Red Saturated photos.
And when exposed at its rated ISO 50 (Didn’t I just say it was rated at 200 ISO?) It washes out some of the red hues.
That confused me and I didn’t understand it when I ordered the film online. But when I recieved the box I read the package. The back of the box said. “Lomo RS Technology offers a very high exposure range. Different exposure settings produce different results. rate the film as ISO 200 for super-intense red and orange colours, rate it as ISO 25 to mix additional tones of blue and green into your image.” with the footnote “Special-effect redscale film with extended exposure range from ISO 12 to ISO 400. Works with all 35mm cameras.”
So after about two weeks of not having anywhere to use ISO 50-200 film. I was invited to a surprise party at a gazebo in a park. Grabbing my Minolta XD-5 (Which has a TTL (Through-The-Lens) light metering with a manual variable ISO dial from 12-3200) shot an entire 36 exp. roll. These are my most favorable results. (Scanning the negatives left a few of the photos lacking compared to their print versions.)
So that’s it for the film. I love it, it has some amazing results I would highly suggest buying this for your SLR camera, however if you you have another type of camera I’d suggest holding off unless you have a light meter. But I’ll warn you, the film seems to only like the lower ISO values (12,25,50) if you have a LOT of light (1/250, 1/500, 1/1000) and a smaller F-Stop (probably less than 8) because that’s when you get the better results, at the slower speeds (1/30, 1/15, 1/8) however it starts to get a little bit grainy as shown in some of the photos.
