Last Updated on 01/30/2013 by Chris Gampat
I really don’t believe this happened, but Lomography managed to do something that was essentially lost for years. Kodak Aerochrome was an infrared film used by the government for surveillance. What it did was took greens and converted them to red and purple. That way, guerrilla fighters could easily be spotted and air raids could take down encampments with relative ease.
Today, Lomography is creating something relatively close: Lomochrome Purple. They’re guaranteeing delivery to be around July 2013. Things aren’t totally what they seem to be though: this is a color negative film–which means that it takes C-41 processing. Chrome films typically need E6 processing. They have more sample images on their website if you’re interested.
Correction: I was wrong. According to Kodak, it takes regular C-41 processing.
The film will be available in 120 and 35mm formats. And they’re not cheap: 120’s regular price is âĴ 59.50 wc comes out to $80.59 for a pack of five; but they have a special price of âĴ 56.53 which is $76.57. 35mm film costs  âĴ 49.50/$67.05 but the special price is $63.70.
We’re hunting around for more information, so stay tuned.
Update: Lomo got back to us with more information about the film. Georg Thaler, who leads the film development team had this to say, âAfter years of researching, thousands of tests and tons of failures, we finally found a way to shift colors of regular color negative films. This is why this film needs to be processed C 41. Itâs basically a Color negative, so E6 is not the right choice for this film.â
