Slide Film

PERFECT FOR CROSS-PROCESSING. VERY LITTLE EXPOSURE LATITUDE.

KODAK E100VS: I always cross-process this film after shooting it in my Holga — yes, that’s a very specific use of this film—and when you cross-process, you must overexpose. By setting the Holga to Sunny and exposing at the standard Holga shutter speed (1/100), I overexpose the film by 1 1/3 stops. The cross-processed results of Kodak E100VS in a Holga always have midnight blue skies and through-the-roof saturation. I prefer this film over other slide films because it renders the perfect color results I want straight out of camera without any fiddling in Photoshop on the back end.

Oh, and I only recommend shooting this film in broad daylight (not open shade!), as the results go really green in the shade.

What the heck is cross-processing? Instead of developing slide film in E-6, which is what it’s designed for, it’s processed in color negative (C-41) chemicals.

If you develop E-6 normally, you’ll get a positive — or a slide. Remember those things you used to have to sit through as your dad hit the Next button on the slide carousel while you looked at photos of him at Yellowstone in his heyday? Yah, those kind of slides.

If you develop color neg film (C-41) you get a negative, the opposite of a positive. So cross-processing means that you take C-41 film and develop it in E-6 chemistry (not so popular) or you take E-6 film and develop it in C-41 chemistry (what I do with my Holgas to get crazzzzzzzzzy color).

Holga 120S, Kodak E100VS, cross-processed, “sunny” setting. Compton, CA.

Holga 120S, Kodak E100VS, cross-processed, “sunny” setting. Maui, HI.

Holga 120S, Kodak E100VS, cross-processed, “cloudy” setting. Mira Mesa, CA.

Holga 120S, Kodak E100VS, cross-processed, “cloudy” setting. Mira Mesa, CA.