How often have you asked yourself "how did these colors came out"? So here is a try to sort some samples by colors and film brands, but only a short overview and based on the labs I used and m scaner, as results are totally different in other countries!
Okay… So here is a try of giving an overview of different colors after cross processing slide films.
First I should shortly explain what cross process (or xpro or x-pro) means:
You cross/ change the chemicals you need to develop the films, so if you have a slidefilm (Diapositivefilm) that should be developed E6 you develop it in chemicals for colornegativefilms (C41). Depending on the brand of film and the ISO you can gain light or extreme color shifts.
To gain a light green (I always compare it to spring) I like to use Fuji Sensia 200 (Fuji RM). If you use it in daylight, the green will be light, decent, nice and if you use the film indoors, you will get a darker, stronger green (depending on the light conditions)
This films is also great to capture red and blue skies. If you overexpose the film you will get yellow results.
So here are some samples for Fuji Sensia 200
Fuji Sensia 200 Light Green
There is a 400 ISO version of Fuji Sensia getting almost the same colors as the 200 ISO film
Another green film is Kodak Elite Chrome (Kodak EB) 100, but the variety of color is quiet high, too, so overexposing leads to yellowish tones, sometimes you can capture beautiful blues and on some shots red pops out extremely.
The thing is that using this film under german light conditions, I tend to overexpose it one step anyways to get colored results. Otherwise the shoots look very grey.
To give an extra-boost of color, Kodak has invented the Kodak Elite Chrome ExtraColor (Kodak EBX) 100. It is like the EB, but with richer colors. Mostly green. o if you want rich green shots, use that film.
You can gain strong and rich colors, too, by using Kodak E100VS. Green, yellow (when over exposed), blue, popping out red…
Here is a sapmle of regular exposure time
Photo by mephisto19
and a longer exposure
Photo by mephisto19
Another film withgreenish results is Kodak EPP. I only had expired films, so no guarantee at all ;)
So let us now get to strong blue. the bluest blue you can get and outstanding red. Agfa CT Precisa 100.
Light blue, oilpainting-like results you can get by using a rare film: kodak EDUPE (3 ISO), a duplicating slide film.
This film is compareable to Tungsten films (64T), which give cold blue results.
To have red or even pink results, you should try Fuji Sensia 100. Sometimes is changes to orange or purple.
The Sensia 100 is the same as Voigtländer Chrome 100, so the results are similar:
A film that come out yellow or blueish ( I still have not figured out, why it is like this) is Konica Centuria Chrome 200. maybe because I only have expired films, so you never know…
Kodak EliteChrome 200 gets blue- turqouise results.
Fuji RAP 100F (Fuji Astia) gives you red-orange results.
Another red-orange film is Fuji Velvia 100 (RVP). But the results even shift into purple sometimes…
And of course there are the two lomoslide film made by lomography. One with 100 asa, that is compareable to Agfa CT Precisa
Lomography Slidefilm 100
and the 200 ISO version of Lomoslide:
There are many, many more slidefilms. You can get rare ones, expired ones, famous ones, unknown,… Just try and enjoy not to know beforhand, what will really come out. But I hope you have now an idea of the results might look…
So now it is your turn to try slidefilms and cross processing. Enjoy!
New to Lomography and want to learn about Cross processing? Check out our guide dedicated to x-pro photography at http://crossprocessing.info/
56 comments
nural
Wow you really have a great variety of photos, I wanna try all the film and everything!
azurblue
Stefan, you really are the great master of the colors, of cross-processing and experimentation !
Congrats and thanks for all this creativity !
Mes yeux en sont encore tout esbaudis !
breakphreak
impressive! also worth to notice that the color tint (and more) may vary from scanner to scanner, from lab to lab - _especially_ when it's about the x-pro, since then there is actually no a singe color scheme which is right :)
breakphreak
actually you've just mentioned that :) heheheh :)
crumpy
wow! I love you! Thanks so much, this is really going to help me and my ventures into x-pro
there's some very special pics in there too btw
vicuna
Congrats Stephan, what a great review of colors! A good guide to use x-pro films! And we know also that it can sometimes be very surprising in some light conditions with surprising unexpected colors... and I can also add that if you're using slide (to be x-processed) in strong sunlight (that's often my case) you should underexpose the film one stop, so you get a stronger vignetting and very deep colors...
zekiyeayse
this post is..... amazing!!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge... Its nice to have these written down!!
coca
great article Stephan!!!
superlighter
massive work Mr Mephisto
disdis
master class!
adi_totp
thanks for sharing :D
eva_eva
omg! what an awesome collections u had! :)
tallgrrlrocks
legendary!
satomi
how genius...thank you stephan! of course, not to mention, brilliant gallery!
novakmisi
very competent work, bravo stephan !!!
violet_rayy
Superb! Nevermind the newbies, this is great for my reference and will bookmark it.
Well done you, a very comprehensive and lovely review!
jaywud
gurkenprinz
wow, mephisto, what a great info! thanks so much!
stouf
The X-pro bible ! You rock Stephan !!!
moonswallow
Applause, applause and you deserve a red carpet :-)
trash-gordon-from-outer-space
Thanks for the great guide. Looks like a whole lot of work.
Maarten
ahleng90
very cool..and helpful!thanks!!!!! :D
blackstar888
i love this! thanks for the reviews!!!
kutshie
Wonderful article!!
jeabzz
that's a really useful article, thx stephan, and great gallery indeed :D
moochie_lomo
Great work! VERY helpful!!!
rater
They should make a section in the FAQ "What is xpro" and just link it to your post... awesome review of xpro possibilities!
ritamiguel
i liiiiiiike it a lot! A LOT! im a beginner on lomography, im still making some experiences =)
-a-l-b-e-r-t-o-
Stephan, what to tell you...:) I don't what to tell you...speechless
mephisto19
thanks for all the comments and likes...! maybe i will write part 2 with more films... ;)
juras77
tveden
Awesome post Stephan.
My sensia's always becomes red/pink
kdstevens
Great article and gallery! Outstanding work. But the most important thing you said in "no guarantees." I have been keeping records of the color range other Lomographers get with different films and my head just spins from all of the variables. And, I guess that's the beauty of xpro--you just never know.
cyan-shine
What a phantastic overview! Well done!!!!
lomoteddy
That was awesome ! cant wait to see our <doubles.selbuob>
drumfire
;o) fantastic experiences
eugster
Thanks a lot for this overview-
I've been searching for something like this, when i decided to try out x-pro and i couldn't decide which film i should try.
I was a bit surprised, when i picked up my first developed fuji sensia 100 yesterday, that the images were more pink than yellow. But i think, the surprises are one thing, that makes cross processing so much fun :)
susielomovitz
thanks for sharing!!!! wonderfuuuuuuullll!!! yuhu!
anarchy
Stephan, YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!! This is an excellent post =)))) And please do a sequel, this is great stuff!!
miedu
awesome!
larslau
Nice article... I have been thinking about writing something like that for a looong while.... But it just seemed too demanding... :)
dimitrul
Thank you soooo much on sharing this!!! Amazing! I can´t wait to experiment!!!
mariefisen
Just what i needed! Thanks a lot for sharing!!
pulex
hab mal ne kurze frage...hab mir deine samples für den agfa ct angeschaut weil ich gerade meine zweite rolle vom labor zurückbekommen hab und das sieht einfach nicht aus wie erwartet fast wie ein sensia ganz grün!! kannst du mir sagen warum? das macht mich fertig ich will "dieses Blau"...ich brauchs einfach aber es wird nix hier ein link zu dem ordner, geschossen mit ner lc-a+
http://www.lomograph(…)-that-green
danke einstweilen und grüße
pulex
travishood
lots of help here thnx much!!
eatcpcks
I come really later but thanks a lot for this article!
brommi
thanks...it really helped me!!!
evagaresp
Really good, love all those colors :) The dificult thing now is gonna get all those different films :)
schemerel
extremely helpfull ! thanks !
disasterarea
this guide is just what i need, I always like to pick a film based upon the colours i'll be shooting
madc
hey! hast du vielleicht einen tipp, wie man gecrosste bilder am besten scannt? ich hab einen canoscan 9000f mit SF. danke!
kimwoo83
kimwoo83
apissepet
Still the best article after 2 years :)
labanxx