Basics
Clear base and high red sensitivity
Process: C-41 colour negative
Speed: ISO 125
Look: Underexpose for coarser grain, prominent shadows, deeper reds.
Normal exposure for normal grain, consistent orange tones, softer shadows.
Overexpose for finer grain – Brighter, more contrasty images, varying tones.
Format: 35mm, 36 exposures or 120 film
Harman Red 125 is a redscale colour negative film from Harman Technology, the lovely people behind Ilford and Harman Phoenix. It's based on Phoenix 200 without the anti-halation layer, and it's made so that light goes through the film base and hits the red-sensitive layer first, which is what gives it that fiery, glowing look.
It's ISO 125 and goes through standard C-41, so any lab can develop it, and it comes in 35mm (36 exposures) as well as 120. You can rate it anywhere from EI 50 to 400, with 100 to 200 being the sweet spot, and the fun bit is how much the look changes depending on where you put it. Underexpose at 250 to 400 and you get coarser grain, deep reds and moody shadows. At box speed it settles into consistent orange tones with softer shadows, and if you overexpose at 50 to 100 it turns brighter and finer-grained with more detail in the highlights, sometimes with little hints of green or blue creeping in.
The negatives come out with a strange blue-cyan base, which threw me the first time I saw one (don't panic, scanners and printers flip it back). It's definitely not an everyday film, but if you fancy drenching a roll in reds, oranges and yellows it's such a fun one to play with.
Basics
Clear base and high red sensitivity
Process: C-41 colour negative
Speed: ISO 125
Look: Underexpose for coarser grain, prominent shadows, deeper reds.
Normal exposure for normal grain, consistent orange tones, softer shadows.
Overexpose for finer grain – Brighter, more contrasty images, varying tones.
Format: 35mm, 36 exposures or 120 film
Harman Red 125 is a redscale colour negative film from Harman Technology, the lovely people behind Ilford and Harman Phoenix. It's based on Phoenix 200 without the anti-halation layer, and it's made so that light goes through the film base and hits the red-sensitive layer first, which is what gives it that fiery, glowing look.
It's ISO 125 and goes through standard C-41, so any lab can develop it, and it comes in 35mm (36 exposures) as well as 120. You can rate it anywhere from EI 50 to 400, with 100 to 200 being the sweet spot, and the fun bit is how much the look changes depending on where you put it. Underexpose at 250 to 400 and you get coarser grain, deep reds and moody shadows. At box speed it settles into consistent orange tones with softer shadows, and if you overexpose at 50 to 100 it turns brighter and finer-grained with more detail in the highlights, sometimes with little hints of green or blue creeping in.
The negatives come out with a strange blue-cyan base, which threw me the first time I saw one (don't panic, scanners and printers flip it back). It's definitely not an everyday film, but if you fancy drenching a roll in reds, oranges and yellows it's such a fun one to play with.