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Paradies 100 Diafilm

I found this film while searching for something on Flickr a while ago. It’s a pretty cheap slide film that’s only available at the German pharmacy dm. It’s a 100 speed slide film, and from the photos it looked as though it’d be a nice film to cross-process. So I headed into a pharmacy, bought a roll. It took me months to finish it, and yesterday I finally came around to scanning it. It has the mysterious marker CR100 on the negatives. Some information on the interwebs suggest it is some old Agfa film stock, or maybe new Precisa stock, who knows?

From the cross-processing though, it sure reminds me of Agfa film. I haven’t seen any other film so far that’s so close to the original colors while just saturating here and there. Quite odd, scratching my head a bit over here. If someone can shed some light on the mystery, please do.

In the meantime, here’s some shots I took with the Lomo LCA, as always shot at 200 speed, underexposing the film. Looks pretty nice if you ask me. All in all, it goes pretty well with the Lomo look. Might buy a couple more rolls and throw one in an SLR, just for fun and giggles.


11 Comments

love them!

and funny, i have a roll of that exact film – bought a while ago and not used so far. now i’m wondering why i haven’t tried it yet. must do…

Posted by kristina k on 27 April 2010 @ 10pm

So you’re saying that I should underexpose the slide film in the LC-A when cross processing? Is that a general rule of yours or would you just do that with this film (and the Agfa Precisa)?

Posted by Urban Hafner on 28 April 2010 @ 7am

It’s become sort of my general rule, since cross-processing tends to over-expose in general, pushing by more than one stop. Hence I usually double the speed when shooting.

Posted by Mathias on 28 April 2010 @ 7am

OK. Thanks Mathias. I’ll keep that in mind when I start cross processing. An LC-A and 20 roll of Agfa Precisa are on the way …

Posted by Urban Hafner on 28 April 2010 @ 8am

When in doubt, I’d suggest you try both. For me, it worked pretty well shooting at 200 speed with the Precisa.

Posted by Mathias on 28 April 2010 @ 8am

I always thought you were supposed to OVERexpose by a stop or two if you intended to cross process. Maybe that’s why I never had any success with it!

Posted by Gary on 28 April 2010 @ 10am

What can I say, I’ve heard it both ways, but guessing from the results I got by just exposing it normally for cross-processing I’d expect a massive over-exposure when over-exposing by one stop. You should try it.

Posted by Mathias on 28 April 2010 @ 7pm

Do you develope your film by yourself or does a lab take care of that? I’m asking because your underexposing technique sounds very appealing (I always thought that slide film is way to flashy and bright, but I want those saturated colors) but I’m afraid my lab could do an overall “correction” of the whole film if they discover that it has been exposed with the wrong ISO settings.

Posted by Mathias B on 1 June 2010 @ 5pm

Btw: Thanks for the film tip, gotta check out DM tomorrow!

Posted by Mathias B on 1 June 2010 @ 5pm

They wouldn’t have any idea that it’s underexposed unless you tell them. The only correction they could do is during scanning, or when you explicitly tell them that you shot the film at 200, and they should adjust their development accordingly. I let the lab develop my film, they assume you shot it at the correct speed, so it’s just not a problem.

I also don’t do that technique when shooting slide film normally, only when I know that I’m gonna cross-process it. I love me a properly exposed slide film.

Posted by Mathias on 1 June 2010 @ 5pm

Is it even possible to process slide film C41 if you don’t want to get just dia negative?

Haha, sorry for being that uninformed. :D

Posted by Mathias B on 1 June 2010 @ 10pm

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