Cross Processing Recommendations...

[filmtwit]

Ya, Fuji E6 xprocessed tends to go green from what I remember.

Ooooohhhhh! Major coincidence here.

I know I've mentioned here that I have a FOAF who runs the photo department at a local (but very inconvenient to me) Wally World.

Well, I just got a call from my friend on a totally different topic, and for some reason I mentioned cross processing.

He said that they tried it early one morning before they decomissioned the film machine at that shop. He said they just ran it through, with the normal run of CD and prints, and that it worked fine, but both the prints and CD scans were "greenish" but otherwise normal.

This was on a Fuji 390 Minilab.

He said the big boss looked in and asked what the heck they were doing, but didn't seem too concerned about it.

He's gonna send me a few scans from that job when he gets home. He didn't say what film, but I'm assuming some kind of Ektachrome or Elite Chrome.


Now, back to the new project at hand. When I picked up the Provia (this was at our remaining real photo shop) I told him what I was going to do and asked if they would (cross) process it. He said they do it all the time.

 

[dmr]

Ya, Fuji E6 xprocessed tends to go green from what I remember.

From what I've seen and experienced, cross-processed slide film has "that look" to it, which usually includes some rather bizarre color shifts including, yes, green.

The only one on this page which does not have "that look" is the one of the cow above. All of Tom's, Dave's, and most of Disaster's have "that look" to them.

For my upcoming shoot, yes, I want "that look" for effect.

 

[excellent]

I don't know if you would want to process c41 in e6 but I just found some old Kodak gold 200 x processed shots and it had a nice look to it.
The best part is Kodak gold film will cost next to nothing compared to the price of e6 film.

 

[nightfly]

I like Kodak Elitechrome 100.

 

[jan normandale]

Nick almost every film known and unknown has been xpro'd by this group. Get busy!! ;D

http://www.flickr.com/groups/crossprocessing/

never know you might find some of my stuff there too...

 

[jan normandale]

I don't know if you would want to process c41 in e6 but I just found some old Kodak gold 200 x processed shots and it had a nice look to it.
The best part is Kodak gold film will cost next to nothing compared to the price of e6 film.

I'd be really interested to see the results. FWIW you might save on the cost of C41 vs E6 film but the E6 processing is about 4-5 times current C41 processing prices... just a thought..

 

[dyao]

any tips for scanning xpro? I tried scanning as a negative and scanning as a positive and then inverting. this is with an epson v700, with the epsonscan software.

scanning as a positive and then inverting gave me really blown out highlights - scanning as a negative was better.

any tips for color correction in photoshop?

 

[Coldkennels]

The one biggest piece of advice I can give is to underexpose by about a stop, contrary to what you'll read online in a lot of places. I've seen a lot people say to overexpose, but I find highlights blow WAY too much doing this.

I'll second that. You can get away with indoor/night time/overcast shots at box speed, but anything decently lit will often be completely whited out.

any tips for scanning xpro? ... any tips for color correction in photoshop?

Personally, I don't give it too much time. Canoscan 9000F, standard MP navigator software, manual settings, auto tone off, no tinkering with curves etc. Get it into iPhoto, use the colour-balancing tool to get somewhere near reality, fine-tune using the colour adjustment bars. I don't have Photoshop, but I imagine similar options are available.