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XPro - a short term for cross process. It is done when slides (positive films) are processed with negative film chemicals, and vice versa. It was the first reason I tried analog photography. It was the first reason I bought my Olympus XA2 - because of its vignetted pictures. I was into Lomo-ish pictures at that time.

I bought a roll of slide film, spent my last summer looking for ideas to shoot anything, so that I could finish the film as soon as possible. I was still an amateur with film. I wanted to see the results right away, so I started wasting about half of the roll with unusable shots. LOL.

Since I couldn’t finish it in time, I brought my camera back to Malaysia. Still couldnt find anything to shoot, I wasted the last frames of shooting ridiculous scenes, objects and other things.

Ive already scanned the film before, but it came out really dull. And I thought “Gee, cross process is really overrated”. I was scanning my b/w films today and thought of scanning the slides again, and this time scanning the film the right way! Before this, I scanned the slides as positive film, and the image came out negative, so I had to inverse them in photoshop. But to find out they came out dull, washed out.

So this time I scanned the slides as color negative filme, so the image came out positive, and “Wow”, the colors are wonderful. And I was totally wrong about cross processing. LOL.

Here are some images, that are usable. Keep in mind, I havent made any adjustments in Photoshop. Enjoy!

I just got my first HP5 Plus film push processed. Darn, it costed me triple for what I’ve used to pay for normal processing.
The grain is somewhat very visible. And some details were almost completely lost, so I had to recover them with photoshop.
Here are a few shots I’ve taken during the Carnival (Karneval) parade in Mannheim last February. I’m still learning to get the hang of street photography.
FYI, Karneval or Carnival is a festival before Easter, which involves parades, people in funny costumes, sorta like Halloween in February. This festive season is typically the same as those Carnivals in Brazil, and the Mardi Gras celebrations.

There are more of these where these came from. I’m just to lazy to upload them all.

let me introduce the new member of the family:

Yes it’s the Lubitel 2. I bought it off ebay, at 19 Euros. A bit expensive for me, but I really want to try out medium format for once. Since Lubitels are scarce now, costing around 30 Euros or more, I think 19 Euros is a good deal.