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Remember to Twist and Pull …La Sardina

ymc — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:00:49 +0000

Before you take your very first shots with La Sardina, you’ll need to load the camera with 35mm film. Some La Sardina Editions arrive with the lens locked. To prepare the camera for shooting with these editions, you’ll need to pull out the lens and twist it until you see ‘Only Shoot If You Read Me’ text on the lens. And remember to twist the lens until you hear that magical ‘click’ sound – when you hear the click, you can start you shoot!

Impossible TIP: Avoiding The Notorious Undeveloped Patch

adrian — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:00:47 +0000

PX 680 Color Shade FF as well as Silver Shade pictures may display a small undeveloped patch at the top of image area when used in folding type cameras (such as the SLR 680/ 690 and SX 70 cameras with an ND filter). Our engineers in the Netherlands are working hard to overcome this issue for future film generations. To avoid this undeveloped patch with our current materials you can apply this easy technique:

At the same time as pressing the shutter release button, slightly press down the film compartment flap of your camera as shown in the video. Do not apply excessive force, as this may damage your camera.

Get a result that brings out a yellow/gold effect

ymc — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:00:10 +0000

Here’s what you can do. If your redscale film is at ISO 400 or even ISO 200, you can set down your camera to ASA 100, this in turn would reduce the dominant reddish effect of the film. But to get a more yellow, gold results, or to just get a surprising color result, you can change the setting of your camera’s aperture.

Usually on a sunny day, apertures are set to 8 on a film with ISO 100. If the aperture is set to 8, you will get just enough light for your redscale film notched at ASA 100, but when you step down one more notch to 5.6 on your aperture setting, this will pretty much take away the the redish, wine-tainted colors of the redsclae film. Different color effects results from such aperture adjustments such as yellow, gold, brown and sometimes grayish color. I think it’s just about the right aperture setting so as not to wash-out or overexposed your results.

If your camera is no ASA setting, It is very simple, all you need to do is set your camera to bulb mode, As for how long, it depends on the condition. If it is sunny, bulb for half a second, if it is cloudy, make it a second.

Also, you can play around with the aperture settings, just note down what aperture was used on such shots taken. This play on your camera’s settings definitely make redscaling more fun. Now, go out and try it

IMPOSSIBLE tip: Shade Your Color Shade!

adrian — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:05 +0000

We love being on the sunny side as much as the next guy, but with Color Shade film being super sensitive to light after exposure, pictures have to get shielded from light IMMEDIATELY as they get ejected from the camera - the first few seconds are crucial!! There are several tricks how to shield the image from light upon its ejection from the camera. You can either cover it with your hand, a darkslide or your shoot directly into a box.

Insufficient shielding will typically result in very light, low contrast images. With the PX 70 PUSH and PX 680 film, poor shielding will also result in a strong pink or orange haze over the picture.

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Shielding your film using a darkslide from Impossible Project on Vimeo.