Redscale & Xpro Trichrome Lomo Purple

I have this love/hate relationship with Lomochrome Purple. Apparently I love buying the film, but hate shooting it.

A little while ago when Lomography released the new Purple formulation, there was a run on all Lomo Purple, the stuff was nearly impossible to get. All stores were out of stock and third parties were selling rolls for over double its retail price. So partly fueled by FOMO, for the next while whenever I found Lomo Purple in stock I bought a few rolls.

Flash forward a bit, after all the hype died down, I realized that I actually didn't like the film stock. After running a couple rolls the gimmick sort of wore out. And now I found myself with a bunch of film I didn't really want.

This led me to try out other unconventional processes. Things like cross processing and bleach bypassing.

I thought I used up my remaining Lomo Purple stock, but after digging around my stash I found even more rolls. So I ended up redscaling and B&W xpro trichroming these two rolls.

cross processed lomo purple

bleach bypassed lomo purple

00:00 intro
00:06 "normal" lomo purple
00:20 cross processed lomo purple
00:35 bleach bypassed lomo purple
01:17 redscale lomo purple
02:07 trichrome cross processed lomo purple
03:12 end

music by:
Ladybirds Mate - Rachel K Collier
Slug Love 87 - Rachel K Collier

[luppy]

Film companies should charge you more when buying their film stocks

[matejhnizdo]

push it to 1600 or 3200, bleach bypass it, tilt shift the lens and fix it in extra salted mountain dew for 30 mins. Ur a legend man

[evanspaulding]

"I fixed lomochrome purple" I was listening to this half asleep and when I heard this....I felt...fear.

[SilntObsvr]

Yep, the trichrome works for exactly the reason you thought -- but the color cast of the film in normal process is not a dye error. In fact, your roll processed in B&W chemistry shows the reason for the purple: *Lomochrome Purple lacks the yellow colloidal silver filter layer normally found in color films.*

That layer keeps blue light out of the red-sensitive color layer (which is also, unavoidably, sensitive to blue). When that isn't the case, everything blue in the scene (in the positive, so after scanning or printing) has red added to it. Red plus blue equals magenta (approximately).

And I can tell this is what's happening because your roll processed in B&W doesn't have the high overall "fog" density you'd usually see in C-41 films processed this way, which is why you're able to see them with only a mild yellow mask (that would be the "orange" mask in a correctly coated C-41 emulsion).

[fandyus]

2:54
This is correct, in fact, normal shots shot with Lomochrome Purple can be corrected digitally just by switching the color channels. With Lomochrome Purple you switch the green and blue channel.

[KelseySmithPhotography]

I cannot get over how fantastic your videos are! I’ve been binging them like crazy and I can’t wait to see more!

[jackdunn]

Push it an ungodly amount. I wanna see that grain!

[Maidaneh]

I wish I'd have so much Lomo Purple just to forget it in the fridge

[darcyfreakthomas]

One theory is the LomoPurple is also IR sensitive. So maybe do an IR tri(quad?!) chrome?

[Danilixo]

Try out processing it in both C41 and E6 !! It comes out a negative and gives it a purple tint on normal stuff, my guess is it'll give it even MORE of a color cast haha

Lomochrome with IR 760nm Filter :) enjoy the long exposure ;)

[butlaoctu]

you can alwayd do standard b&w slide developing or pushing it to 509600 or smth

[fandyus]

3:24
You could try pushing one of the rolls and maybe test how much you can overexpose the other.

[sergiomartinezolivar]

Making a slide with it by solarizing it

[syth]

Run a roll through a totally alternate chemical train. In example, developer: backing soda, beer, milk, coffee take your pick. Stop bath: vinegar or that Sprite from the other video. Fixer: salt water and maybe some jetdry as wetting agent.

[bosz]

Cross process but use bw developer, reexposing and c41 chemicals. Should give different colors than in standard e6.

[williamdavignon]

Shoot it with a yellow or light green filter (opposite color spectrum) and see if they just come out blank or not. You'll get your answer as if its a color sensitivity thing or just a color shift

[fayed.untitled]

Test the exposure limits and how different the colors will look on one roll, and push the second roll 3 or 4 stops.

[PinebrookPictures]

There's rumors online that you can make Lomo Purple look like aerochrome with the right filters... Do you want to try that absolute insanity?

[rorythorns]

Process as B&W Slide and then trichrome