Harman, the company that makes the famous black-and-white Ilford emulsions, has just released a redscale version of their Phoenix 200 film.
Redscaling means loading colour film into your camera “upside-down,” which produces strong red tones on a darker exposure.
You can redscale any colour film at home (see below), even Phoenix 200.
Harman’s Red 125 has new packaging with an updated DX code to reflect the film’s lower sensitivity to light. The factory also printed the edge markings on the correct side so that all commercial labs could easily identify, develop, and scan this film.
A technical document about Red 125 (found here: harmanphoto.co.uk/amfile/f…) prints characteristic curves which show about 4 stops of composite dynamic range (3 for the red channel) and a very cool spectral sensitivity graphic.
Whereas the “normal” Harman Phoenix 200 came with special scanning instructions for commercial labs, the Red 125 document suggests standard settings for all scanners.
Dmitri Feb 14, ‘25