Redscale DIY

[Steve Ricoh]

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Fancy giving this a go, but just wondering if reversing the film with the emulsion facing the pressure plate, and hence the curl being forced to curl the other way, would put any strain on the camera mechanism, mainly the take-up mechanism?

With this in mind, is it better to buy a commercially produced Redscaled film?

[frame-it]

in which camera body ?

[Steve Ricoh]

8 hours ago, frame-it said:

in which camera body ?

M6 or Pentax MX

[frame-it]

interesting

 

http://fmphotocourses.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-make-redscale-film.html

[Steve Ricoh]

Simple to do with a changing bag, but hadn't thought about the consequences of the tape. Will ask the lab. to make sure it doesn't bugger their process.

But wrt curling the film about face, ie against the original curl, will it put strain on the wind-on mechanism. That was my question.

[TomB_tx]

The winding mechanism does a reverse curl anyway on the take-up spool, so in most cameras (except some like the old Canon "QL" models) curl the film in both directions inside the camera.