X-pro
I found this little page today, and thought that I would re-blog it.
http://pixelfarmize.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/xpro-film-chart/
It has got me thinking a bit about cross-processing, and the results that you get. Cross processing has become a bit of a trend at the moment, with the whole l*mography business, and their repackaged slide films with C41 labeling (for labs that won’t cross process).
It is something I do a lot – partly because I like the effect, partly because E6 processing is a pig to come by and expensive. Different films do produce different effects – Sensia 200 is known to tend towards green, Velvia 100 towards red, whereas the Kodak and Agfa slide films are more blue and characterised more by bright colours rather than radical shifts.
Certainly Fuji films (in particular) do display these odd characteristics, but I do at times wonder how much of the colours and effects we get are largely down to the scanning. Not that that is a problem, just something to bear in mind.
With careful colour editing, it is quite possible in many cases to cross process slide film and get pretty natural colours. But where’s the fun in that..?
All the gallleries here we on the Franka AF-300 – there’s something about this little camera and cross processing…