Olympus 35SP with Agfa Precisa Cross Processed
I had a roll of Agfa Precisa 100 which is a slide film meant for E6 development however I opted to develop it in C41 color negative chemistry. This is commonly referred to with the self explaining name ‘cross processing’ As with many things ‘film’ I like the somewhat random nature of the results. Some images turned out with very little to tell them apart from an image processed normally to other images having severe colour shifts. Part way through the roll I also opened up the back of the camera for a little bit of a light leak across some frames. Doing this of course you loose some images and you risk ‘damaging’ what might have otherwise been a good image. On the flip side you can get some interestingly effected images that would be hard to achieve any other way. You might be able to get a faux light leak result with some photo manipulation but someone needs to create the baseline of what would happen in the real world.
The shift in colour was quite unpredictable as can be seen from these two images of the same sign. The one on the left was taken shooting into the light and the one on the right was taken away from the light. The shift towards green isn’t equal across the entire image but happens primarily in the blues of the sky. That image is as scanned with no effort made to hide the effect through adjustments.
I’m happy with the results and continue to be enamored with the Olympus 35SP which has risen to be my favorite rangefinder camera. More about this camera here Olympus 35 SP
While many people think of a 50mm lens on 35mm film as being the normal focal length that approximates what the human eye would see the actual diagonal of a 35mm film frame is around 43mm which means that the 42mm lens on the 35SP is much closer to the ideal normal lens than 50mm is. One more reason the Olympus 35 SP is an awesome camera.
