Kodak 5302 "Fine Grained Positive Release"

ORIGINALLY POSTED TUESDAY, 28 JULY 2009

Kodak 5302 "Fine Grained Positive Release"

I was given this in a film swap from a kindly flickrite named Chris Beauchemin, who had bought 100' of it and wasn't quite sure what he was going to do with ~800 exposures worth of incredibly slow film, only sensitive to blue and without an anti-halation backing. Despite its name, when you develop it, you get a negative. It can be used to make b/w slides by photographing other negatives, since the filmbase is clear once developed. Before development, it's an eerie white colour, a bit like glow in the dark plastic, but without the green phosphorescence.

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In all of the pictures, the sky is plain white because it's actually blue and thus massively exposing the film, unlike everything else, which just reflects smaller amounts of blue from the sky.
Unfortunately, a few frames on this roll were ruined because I loaded the camera in sunshine (clever). The light piped down the film and fogged a few images. This is because there is no anti-halation layer to stop light piping. A similar thing occurs if you load Kodak's HIE in daylight, as that also lacks an AH layer.
Anywho, thanks Chris, it was great fun playing with something new.