There’s a brand new film being announced today: Revolog Echo. It’s a pre-exposed film — and they’ve been known for doing this for several years. This film was previously exposed to prismatic textures. All you need to do is shoot with it the way you do and you’ll have an automatically double exposed film. Films like this have been around for years, and they tend to be really fun because of all the ways that you can get creative with them easily.
What to Know About Revolog Echo
There is an ISO 200 and ISO 400 variant with 36 exposures each
Process C-41
It’s pre-exposed film, specifically, it was exposed to prismatic textures
You can buy it directly on Revolog’s website.
If you look at it very closely, it also looks a bit odd. By that, I mean that it sometimes looks like what happens with CineStill film when they don’t remove the remjet layer properly. Some folks embrace this as a happy accident while others ask Cinestill for a new roll of film. Typically, they’ve always given photographers a new roll — at least with the last that I heard.
In this case, the film is also more intriguing. We’re not sure if they’re preexposing Fujifilm, Kodak, or Lomography emulsions. And we’d only imagine that if you overexpose the film that the effect will be lessened. If you underexpose it, the effect might be more intensified. This is just based on what we’ve experienced before with other film emulsions. Typically, I’d want to shoot ISO 400 film at 200 and then develop at 320. In this case, you surely want to shoot with the film and develop it immediately at box speed for the intended effect.
To clarify even further, this film is only available in 35mm. We’re curious to see how it would work in large format or medium format, but both of those are very unlikely to happen.
More specifically, these aren’t the types of prisms that photographer Ernst Em uses. Instead, they’re more like the ones that you’d find from someone like WeeklyImogen. And just by looking at the images, they also appear to be more like the prism look that I get from the Hobolite Iris. However, the main draw here is how easy it’s making double exposure. Photographers like Kate Hook are absolute masters at doing things like that. She does everything from scratch. With Revolog Echo, some of the work is done for you already. The fun comes in not knowing or remembering what the images looked like before.
I could only imagine what souping your film, using off-camera flash or other things might do to it.
Sample Images
The following images were provided to us by Revolog.
