Topic: Lomochrome Turquoise

[Francois]

I don't know if any of you got the email from Lomography advertising a new film?
It's Lomochrome Turquoise. It's a 100 to 400 ISO pushable color film that turns pretty much everything into turquoise and orange.
Now for my big question: does anybody know what the heck they've respooled?
We all know that they don't coat their own films. But this doesn't look like any X-pro film I've seen so far.

http://www.lomography.com/magazine/news/2014/10/20/snap-up-this-incredible-invention-lomochrome-turquoise-film

[Indofunk]

That looks cool, but not $12/roll cool.

[Francois]

I agree on that.
But my guess is that it's something available on the market somewhere at a much lower price...
I know Ann (she used to hang around here) once used some color copy film that was like a C-41 negative but without the orange mask... I wonder if it gave similar results? If so, that means the stuff can be had for really cheap.

[Hungry Mike]

Was the purple Lomochrome repurposed? If so what was it?

[tkmedia]

I'm thinking a lot of their film is defect..

film company
Boss: What happen to that last master roll of film? The colours are weird!
Production: Your nephew Skippy forgot to refill chemical F last year!
Boss: Lets make a new one and try to sell the Skippy one.
Production: That's a huge loss, and the only one ready for this years production.
Skippy: Lets sell it to Lomography! They'll take anything.

months later
Boss: Lomography bought that Skippy film! Skippy you're the new vice president!
Skippy: I think we need to stop making film...
Production: but...
Lomography: We have a AMAZING new film!

[Indofunk]

 

[jojonas~]

yeah, looks like they missed a color layer. I actually had a velvia without one color channel once. might've been from the end of the bulk or something?

I agree on that.
But my guess is that it's something available on the market somewhere at a much lower price...
I know Ann (she used to hang around here) once used some color copy film that was like a C-41 negative but without the orange mask... I wonder if it gave similar results? If so, that means the stuff can be had for really cheap.

rollei digibase cn200 is like that. I've had some fun crossprocessing it

[Late Developer]

For that price, I'd expect grain-free and colour perfect.  I know I'm cynical but I can't help thinking "King's New Clothes" every time there's some weirdy colour-shift film pushed into the market.

Just thinking about it, the price of the film might be influenced heavily by the the cost of marketing and distributing these oddball films in the volumes they sell compared to more mainstream stuff.

[mcduff]

OK. I will admit to buying some lomochrome purple - in my defense I will say I was influenced by their aerochrome marketing references. I did not buy much if it and lave only shot one roll of it (tho my daughter likes it).

Given I did not race through my lomo purple, I will certainly not be getting behind this.

[SLVR]

Hey if you are willing Id trade you the rest of my purple for something? Also I'll take that 10 rolls of FP4 this weekend at the show?

[thatguychad]

I'm thinking a lot of their film is defect..

film company
Boss: What happen to that last master roll of film? The colours are weird!
Production: Your nephew Skippy forgot to refill chemical F last year!
Boss: Lets make a new one and try to sell the Skippy one.
Production: That's a huge loss, and the only one ready for this years production.
Skippy: Lets sell it to Lomography! They'll take anything.

months later
Boss: Lomography bought that Skippy film! Skippy you're the new vice president!
Skippy: I think we need to stop making film...
Production: but...
Lomography: We have a AMAZING new film!

I feel the same way about Impossible films. Why doesn't Fuji scale up their Instax film? At least it works reliably.

[Ed Wenn]

I'm thinking a lot of their film is defect..

film company
Boss: What happen to that last master roll of film? The colours are weird!
Production: Your nephew Skippy forgot to refill chemical F last year!
Boss: Lets make a new one and try to sell the Skippy one.
Production: That's a huge loss, and the only one ready for this years production.
Skippy: Lets sell it to Lomography! They'll take anything.

months later
Boss: Lomography bought that Skippy film! Skippy you're the new vice president!
Skippy: I think we need to stop making film...
Production: but...
Lomography: We have a AMAZING new film!

This made my day. Very funny 

[Urban Hafner]

That seems entirely possible, tkmedia!

[Indofunk]

I was just stitching a (d*****l) panorama and accidentally hit control-I in Photoshop (which inverses colors), and it turned into precisely the demo shots on the lomo page.That has zero to do with anything, but I thought it was coincidental.

[Francois]

So it could be a negative film without the orange mask...