Cross-processing pointers

trican

Hi all,

I'm about to put in an order on 7dayshop for a few rolls of film, and I'm considering buying some slide film to experiment with cross-processing. Anyone have any tips or pointers for a newbie? e.g.
film recommendations?
What works in terms of type of picture/composition for crossprocessing?

DaireQuinlan

I've tried a few different slide films for X-Pro. DO NOT use provia 400x I've x-pro'd two rolls of that and gotten dreadful results both times. Which is a complete waste because as a slide film its sublime.

Do get a couple of rolls of fuji 64t if 7dayshop still stock it. Its resulted in my favourite x-pro'd shots. Do a tag search on my stream for some examples.

trican

Cool Daire, will pick up a roll of that then. Do you typically underexposure the rated iso by a stop? So ISO 32 then for the film you mentioned - which will mean only outdoor shots in bright light?

DaireQuinlan

trican wrote: »

Cool Daire, will pick up a roll of that then. Do you typically underexposure the rated iso by a stop? So ISO 32 then for the film you mentioned - which will mean only outdoor shots in bright light?

welll, actually shooting 64t at iso 32 actually overexposes it by a stop. Generally people recommend underexposing by a stop though, so that'd be shot at 100 or so. I've never bothered, and gotten acceptable results. I shoot at the box speed unless I have to bump it up a stop (it's pretty slow as-is). And yes, outdoors in reasonably bright light is where its at. Although my favourite shot below I took in a pub under flourescents at night with a 20mm balanced on the edge of a table IIRC, it was about 1/10th of a second or something.

shrapnel222

look for some old AGFA CT precisa on ebay and the like. it is by far the best for XProcessing. check out flickr groups also but as a rule of thumb, fuji gives a slightly green tint, kodak red, agfa saturates without shiftinig colors too much.

melekalikimaka

some ektachrome is pretty nice

trican

Thanks for all the advice guys!

trican

I thought I'd follow up with some results from my cross processing experiments. The first roll was a mixed bag, partially my fault as I set the ISO completely randomly. Anyhow I went for Agfa Precisa 100, I found out the newer batches of this seem have a green tinge rather than a blue tinge.... will definitely experiment further....

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jjoconnor

shrapnel222 wrote: »

look for some old AGFA CT precisa on ebay and the like. it is by far the best for XProcessing. check out flickr groups also but as a rule of thumb, fuji gives a slightly green tint, kodak red, agfa saturates without shiftinig colors too much.

Precisa is great, shame it's hard to buy in Dublin. I'd certainly recommend trying Provia - if you're looking for punchy saturated colour without too much of a shift in one single colour.

Provia cross process

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=provia%20xpro&w=all

Will23

any of you guys know where to get one's hands on some afga precisia these days? without paying a fortune?!