Got a little too trigger happy yesterday at the Air Force open house preview and burned a roll of redscale film loaded in my Pentax MZ-30 coupled with the Lensbaby Scout + fisheye optic combo. It was a super darn hot day but somehow the roll still turned out underexposed. Bah! Well at least I know the next time I use redscale on the cam … I’ll probably compensate the exposure by +1 (or is it +2?).
I was a little disappointed after scanning the first two shots but then after a while … I seem to like some of these shots despite the fact that they are underexposed. Also perhaps due to underexposure, the scanned result seemed to be more orangy/red than expected.
It was lucky that I brought the Lensbaby Scout instead of the Composer along that day because most of the time, I was shooting with only one hand and it was way easier to focus (using the Scout) by stretching my middle finger a little to turn the focusing ring.
The fisheye effect from the optic works better in full frame (35mm) compared to a cropped factor digital body.
Hmm … come to think of it … anyone has any idea what ISO should be set when using the Lomography’s Redscale XR film? I see 50-200 on the label but there is a 400ISO printed on the canister. My SLR detected it as ISO400 … so could that be the reason for underexposure?
