Cross process- reverse lens?

Okay, this was a little experiment. I bought a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye on eBay and reversed the lens in the camera. (took it apart and put the lens in backwards) It makes the lens sort of a closeup lens and soft on the edges. (a brownie’s focus is normally fixed at infinity) Then I cross processed the film. Taking slide film (E-6) and processing it in color negative (C-41) chemistry. Intensionally processing the film in the wrong chemistry.

To put it simply, it’s sort of like a real life Instagram filter from back in the days when a phone was only used to call someone.

If nothing else this was a fun little exercise.

And the significance of using a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye? it was the camera I took my first roll of film at age 10.  More about that on this blog post.

The Memorial Union Chairs seemed like a good subject for my first trial run with the cross processing.

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My eBay find used to take these photos.  A 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye in mint condition in the original box. The same camera model that I took my first roll of film with.