A while ago I swapped a film/camera with the Japanese photographer Keiko Mizuno. Well, I just received a film in return. This time I noticed the film had a higher rated ASA of 800. That meant there was enough scope to reverse it and make it a red scale. That would turn it into a swap and a shoot-both-sides (SBS) project.

There were no markings on the film and no details of what had been shot previously. So, I decided on the Tokimeki approach Keiko loves so much.

Once reversed to redscale, I loaded the film into one of the new Contax cameras I got recently, the 139, and got to shooting. By the way, to make the redscale, I just pulled out the film in a dark bag, cut it, flipped it, taped it, rewound it back into the cassette. At it was 800asa, I shot it at 200asa as the light would have to pass through the film base, losing two stops.

Anyway, here are my results. Some of the film was not exposed by Keiko so my redscale shots were the only ones present.

The film was developed and scanned by Photo Hippo and I said to scan the film anyway they could. They chose to scan it twice. Once with the English side the right way round, once with it reversed. I appreciated that as it let me choose my favourite version.

Thank you Keiko for the opportunity for another Japan/England film swap.