Lomography Purple Review

Our Lomography Purple review combines the community's comments, recommendations, sample images and feedback to give you an excellent overview of Lomo Purple film's strengths and weaknesses!
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Lomography LomoChrome Purple was launched in 2013, originally positioned as a tribute to colour infrared films like Kodak Aerochrome. One of the noticeable quirks of infrared colour was the purple tint that many images delivered. And it’s definitely true that with certain subjects and in certain light the effect from Lomo Purple is remarkably similar. Greens become purple, blues become green, and yellows become pink.
That was the original inspiration but in the past 8 years the film has outgrown the 'similar to Aerochrome' niche to command a special place in the artistic options available to film photographers all by itself.
The formula was updated in 2019 to tweak the colour effect slightly which made it more consistent and reliable under different lights, and since then the film has grown in popularity. It’s also now available in 120, 110 and simple use so there are lots of opportunities to experiment in different cameras.
One important thing to note is that exposing the film at different ISOs will render the colours slightly differently. This means that this film will make you work a little to find how it fits into your shooting, but I promise it’s worthwhile!
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