All of these photos were taken using Harman’s Red 125 35 mm film. I bought this on a whim with the feeling that I would really like the output of this film; I was completely right.

Using my Nikon F60 with a Nikkor 28-80 mm, I took photos during my trip to the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during the middle of October 2025. I also took some shots on some Kodak 400TX, but it was at the tail end (literally at the end of the trip while we waited for the ferry back to Vancouver), so I’ll leave it for another post possibly before year end.

What I really liked about this photo is that while it implied that it was a redscale film, it showed a spectrum of colours which permitted white, black, green, and of course red. The above photo showing a house on an estate was taken from the porch of the cottage we were staying at.

The above is one of my two favourite shots taken with this roll.

I took a photo of the mast of the ferry we took between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale. What really is cool here is that it shows a blue tone that I haven’t been able to figure out why since Harman doesn’t suggest it has this colour in its spectrum.

This is the most pure example of the redscale film in action–the reds are quite apparent here. This was as the ferry left Horseshoe Bay.

One of the pedestrian bays on the top-right really shows an intense black, but this is just a consequence of scaling down and then encoding in JPEG. In any event, you once again can see the greens leaking through.

Finally my second favourite photo.

It was really pouring and we made it to Earl’s Cove just so we can see what the other ferry dock looked like. This boat in the distance would take you to the other side to permit you to visit places such as Powell River and then another ferry across the Strait of Georgia to then Vancouver Island.

At the time of the shoot, the sky had an intense grey colour, which was not at all atypical for our part of the world, but the way the film developed the shot left me reminded of how the sky looks during our summers when forest fire smoke makes its way into the south coast.

Such as this example below from when the smoke made its way into Metro Vancouver:

This was taken using an LG V20 smartphone I had back in August 2018. Obvious this produced a very different outcome, but you should be able to understand my willingness to compare.

I look forward to taking more photos. I’m thinking I’ll take shots during a spring or summertime event when I can have a variety of colours available. Right now, most trees have rid themselves of leaves so I’ll wait.