9 Frames - Failure Is Always An Option
November 22, 2024
- Where: Old Sacramento Waterfront + USS Hornet
- Camera: Ricoh GR10
- Film: Agfa CT Precisia slide film, expired and cross-processed
- Scan: Nikon Super Coolscan 9000
As the Mythbusters famously said, “Failure is always an option!” And with analog photography, failure can lead to interesting results. A few weeks before my trip to San Francisco, I loaded a roll of expired Agfa CT Precisia into my trusty Ricoh GR10 to see what it looked like when I cross-processed that film. I never got around to exposing that roll and eventually ended up with a forgotten roll of film in one of the cameras I took on my trip. Thus, I opted to fill that roll as quickly as possible to free the camera for some more “serious” photography. When I came back home, I cross-processed the slide film as planned, and the result was these oddly colored and coarsely grained images that you see in this post.
