Ridiculous Grain

[per volquartz]

I like it... lol
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[Mike Crawford]

I like it... lol
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Wow! The Autochrome has been relaunched.
Well done!!

[mabman]

I had a roll of Provia 400X cross-processed a few months ago, and it came out grainy, but not like that.

If you're trying to see if you like the effect, I'd try a fresh roll and a different lab and see what happens.

[jd callow]

cool

[bob100684]

I'm going, poor scanning technique by the lab. If scanned on a frontier, have it rescanned with sharpness set at low 2

[ajuk]

I would bin the rest of that lot!

[wogster]

'Allo. I recently purchased 12 rolls of expired (5/2002) Fuji Sensia 200 slide film and shot a few rolls at a local show I went to. I got the film cross processed as C41 and then scanned at a local camera shop. The scans had a ridiculous amount of grain and at first I thought something was wrong with their scanner as the grain looked more like digital noise than film grain. I got a frame printed at Walgreens to check this but the print came out just as grainy as the scan from the camera store. I know that cross processing increases grain, but the grain in these photos is insane. In fact I think there is more grain in these photos than the grain in a roll of 800 speed film I shot a while ago. Does expired film increase grain? Is it possible something happened during development? Here is one of the scans from the roll: http://i39.tinypic.com/11158qp.jpg

Let me get this straight, you look film that expired 6½ years ago, and you processed it in chemistry it's not intended to be processed in, and your surprised that the results don't look good?

[Ed Sukach]

It would take a great deal more "grain" than shown in the samples for me to dismiss the film/ process as "unuseable". One has only to consider the works of Ralph Gibson, where he used Anscochrome 1000 pushed mercilessly two and three stops. The grain was (yeah, I know, from inefficient memory) more pronounced than here, and I think it "made" the tone and mood of the works (a wonderful, beautiful, series of nudes).

Grain - Simply another "tool in the box".

[Domin]

Let me get this straight, you look film that expired 6½ years ago, and you processed it in chemistry it's not intended to be processed in, and your surprised that the results don't look good?

I've done a lot of that, and even more (more expired film + more unintended chemistry) and the results rarely looked that bad. For sure I've never seen such mess with cross processing slide in a good lab.

It clearly looks to me as badly processed (bad bleach?) and/or underexposed and/or badly fogged at the start.

About duplicating this effect - I have a exposed roll of EPP waiting for C41 with no bleach. It might or might not give similiar effect.