A friend asked if I could cut some 120 colour film to 127 for him and of course, I obliged. That meant I had some colour 16mm cut-offs…ooh…I haven’t used colour in my Minolta 16 before. But, how would I develop it once I had shot it? I don’t develop C41 myself; if I send it to someone, I would need the refillable cartridges back. So if I did send it away to someone, I would have to shoot the film, then put the negative strips inside a black film container, taped up but unprotected otherwise. The lab would have to be very careful.
So I wrote to Photo Hippo and explained the situation. No problem they said, and that’s what I did. This is an exciting post eh?
Anyway, practically the next day, they returned the scans. Here are some of the results from either an expired Fuji 400 or Kodak Portra 400.
The fogging was done by me, not the lab. I was careless putting the film strip in the cartridge, but I quite like the effects.
Those came out great!!! I have only done B&W in 16mm, but I just got some Vision something or other movie film that was cut down to 16mm and even came pre-rolled in cartridges, waiting for some sunny days here to go out and try it … I do my own C-41, but this is ECN2 so also waiting for those chemicals to arrive. If you get the Cinestill 2 bath C-41 kit, it’s not that much different than B&W, just 38C as opposed to 20C.
Thanks. I have done C41 in the past, but I would rather send the few that I do away. Especially 16mm, the scan that I get back from the lab are much better than I could make at home.