Mastering Harman Phoenix #5: Redscale, Bleach Bypass

[@mediamfilm]

Uploaded just in time for me to enjoy with my 1am dinner!

[@Shaka1277]

The price of you being so successful 🥹

[@JasonSplendid]

I'd just started looking for a film to redscale when you uploaded this video. Now I know for sure that I'll be trying it with Phoenix!

[@pushingfilm]

Goldmine of knowledge! 🙂 Thanks for sharing your tests

[@Shaka1277]

I need to find something else to hyper focus on once this stuff disappears 😅 Thank you again!

[@pushingfilm]

@@Shaka1277 Haha I'm sure you will!

[@MariusGandolf]

Oh thats the teaser you gave me in Nürnberg xd It was very nice meeting you, the whole event was awesome - as was this video

[@Shaka1277]

That's the one! And yes it was great meeting you too, and everybody else at the event. :)

[@boneheaded]

ur real name is shaka

[@Shaka1277]

Alex is my stage name 🕺

[@fedialegrill3738]

I love your videos ! Could you make a video where you explain how color film is sensitized to green and red light ?

[@eoghanhennessy15]

Shooting my 2nd roll of phoenix tomorrow wooo

[@Shaka1277]

Send me pics when it's done 🤙

[@saturnspike]

Really love this entire Phoenix series. Maybe a silly question, but how did you actually reverse the film? Did you respool it in a dark bag?

[@Shaka1277]

Bingo! In a dark bag, I: - Pulled the film out of the can - Cut it close to the can, leaving a ~1 cm "tongue" sticking out - Flipped the can over (minimises handling of the film) - Taped the film back to the tongue, making sure to carefully align the two parts - Rewound it back into the can And then afterwards I cut a new leader since it's the wrong way around after doing this. With some practise I regularly get 35 exposures, but 36 is definitely doable, or you could cut too much and only get 34!

[@iNerdier]

A very small comment on so called 'bleach bypass'; in cinema it's almost never actually skipping bleach, it's pulling a rack out so it has less time in the bath. The look in the spaghetti westerns that made it famous was them cheaping out on processing and pushing things until they were almost exhausted, rather than removing it entirely. If you want a less aggressive look with all of this try just a reduced bleaching time, though I would say that this is really not a film that looks good compared to something like the vision3 stocks.

[@andykphoto]

I think the last time I did red scale (in the early naughty oughties) I just flipped some slide film in the darkroom into a self loaded canister. Or maybe it was some negative film. I’ll have to check my binders. I see Zeiss Ikon ZM there… any thoughts on that relative to a Minolta CLE?

[@Shaka1277]

The CL/CLE weren't really an option for me. I went for the ZM for the gigantic finder which makes it easy for me to see 35 mm framelines - I can't see them with my glasses on most other cameras.

[@andykphoto]

@@Shaka1277 I’ve been tempted by the long effective base length bug, but also the finder. But I’m having so much fun with the CLE and my now complete set of minolta lenses 🤷‍♂️🙈