I was pleasantly surprised by Ilford Imaging’s half frame single use. But when I reviewed it I hadn’t finish a roll I shot in the reloaded Ilfocolor. But I have now, Ironically using Ilford Photo (aka Harman) B&W film. Here’s the results.
A quick reminder of the Camera
I’ll shortly in corporate most of this into an updated version of my review of the camera. If you haven’t read that, I’d recommend do so and come back. But this is for those of you whom have already read my review and wondered how I got on
In brief, the Ilford Ilfocolor Rapid Half Frame single use is a disposable camera sold by the Swiss Ilford Imaging. But don’t confuse them with the film making UK based Ilford Photo aka Harman Technology . That’s because these 2 company represent 2 separate parts of the original Ilford company.
The film
So the Rapid Half Frame comes with Ilfocolor 400 a colour negative film. Likely made by ORWO/FilmoTec and is likely based on or similar to Wolfson NC500. But here we stuck in Ilford (Harman) XP. It’s C-41 monochrome film famed for it’s fine grain and dynamic range and tolerance
Loading and processing the reloaded Ilfocolor
As I’ve said before , I caveat re-using is at your own risk. Given that, this one of the safer ones I’ve reloaded. I detailed how to do it in my original post. This time I used the under the duvet in a dark room to reload.
Afterwards the roll went to Photo Hippo whom seem to be my go to for half frame D&P at the moment.
The Results with the Reloaded Ilfocolor
In spite of potential loading woes, I got 36 Diptych pairs back with 68 visible images. Equally all of those were useable from an exposure PoV with no leaks. In spite of fumbling around under a duvet I got few finger artefacts. Not surprisingly, my lost half frames were as you’d expect at the start and end of the roll.
Obviously I’ll not really comment on image quality. Because it’s pretty much the same as the preloaded film in my review . The TL:dr is centrally okay but best near and median distances, softening towards edges.
So I noticed 2 other things. The first I’d missed from my review but when I went back I spotted the same on colour diptychs. There is a an angulation between frames (wider by a fraction at top)
Secondly I found a couple of shots looked over expose like this one.
So I suspect that’s more to do with lab averaging at scanning and was easily corrected in post in Photoshop.
