LomographyLomoChrome Turquoise

LomoChrome Turquoise is a Lomography color negative film for standard C-41 processing that shifts colors on purpose: reviewers report blues turning orange, yellows and reds turning blue or purple, and greens turning turquoise or emerald [4] [7]. It is sold as ISO 100–400 in 35 mm, 120 and 110 [1] [2] [3]. It is Lomography’s second color-shift film beside LomoChrome Purple, and it swaps different colors.

Look and color

Lomography publishes no data on how the film shifts colors, and its product page could not be read for this page (HTTP 403). The descriptions below come from reviews, which do not always agree. Lomography’s own summary, as it appears in search results, promises “brilliant turquoise with orange tones”.

• Blues turn orange. Analog.cafe renders blues “in shades of orange” [4]. Parallax got vivid orange skies, and found that the color of the sky and the direction of the sun had a big impact [6]. Emulsive quotes Lomography saying that blues glow in golden hues [5].
• Yellows and reds turn blue, or purple. Analog.cafe says reds and yellows become cobalt [4]. Molly Kate reports yellows and oranges turning blue and reds turning purple [7]. The sources disagree on the reds: cobalt or purple.
• Greens turn turquoise or emerald [4] [7] [8]. Emulsive quotes Lomography saying warm colors are bathed in cool blue gradients “ranging from aqua to cobalt to emerald” [5].
• Skin turns blue. “For portraiture, this means that the skin also turns blue”, writes Analog.cafe [4]. Shoot It With Film found lighter complexions shift dramatically while warmer brown skin handles the shift better [8]. Molly Kate found the blue skin “absolutely strange” [7].
• Shadows. Analog.cafe’s first scans showed a slight green cast and some grain in the shadows, which it corrected in editing [4]. This may be a scanning artifact; the sources do not say.
• Light matters a lot. Bright, direct sun gives the strongest results; gray, overcast days flatten the image [8] [6]. Molly Kate says the shift depends on lighting and subject brightness [7]. Parallax suggests experimenting to get consistent results [6].
• The scan matters. Molly Kate adjusted contrast and saturation slightly at the scanning stage [7], and Analog.cafe reports that well-scanned negatives tolerate strong color correction [4].
• Line artifacts. Shoot It With Film saw unwanted color lines on some negatives, which it says can be removed in post-processing [8].

The colors on this page describe the film. The darktable style is a model built from the same descriptions, not a scan of the film.

Tonality

• No published curve. Lomography publishes no datasheet [4].
• Contrast: the reviews differ. Analog.cafe calls it mid-contrast [4]. Parallax found it “much more contrasty” than LomoChrome Purple, with little shadow detail and highlights that burn easily [6].
• Rating changes the look. Analog.cafe found EI 400 gave the most prominent effect, and two more stops (EI 100) “diminishes some of its orange hues and starkness” [4]. Emulsive also found the shifts stronger toward 400, with turquoise tones still dominant at 100, and noted about ±2 stops of exposure latitude [5].
• A middle setting. Shoot It With Film recommends ISO 200 as balanced, calls the film hungry for light, and finds that metering for the shadows keeps saturation better than overexposing [8].
• Filters and speed. Emulsive found that changing speed or filter altered the look little, unlike Purple [5].

Grain and sharpness

No granularity figure is published [4].

• Analog.cafe describes “sharp grain that can make fine details stand out” and a medium-grained result [4].
• Molly Kate, shooting at ISO 400, found the grain noticeable but moderate, and liked it with lo-fi cameras [7].
• Parallax describes a softer image, with colors that “feel like they are glowing” [6].
• Lomography describes the 2021 film as fine grain, in a search result summary we could not confirm on the page. That is more optimistic than the reviews above.

Spectral sensitivity

Lomography does not publish spectral sensitivity for this film, so there is no chart on this page. What the reviews describe is a film whose layers no longer respond to the colors you would expect, and the exact sensitivities are unknown.

Names, status and history

• Launch and revival. Molly Kate describes the 2021 formula as a revival of a film launched in 2014, whose production had stopped and which Lomography brought back after community demand [7]. Emulsive’s review dates from July 2015 and calls the film limited edition [5]. We found no primary source for the exact launch date.
• Names. Reviews also call it “LomoChrome Turquoise XR 100–400”, the extended-range name [4] [5].
• Formats. Lomography lists the 2021 formula in 35 mm, 120 and 110 [1] [2] [3]. Analog.cafe lists the same three [4]. The 35 mm canister has no DX code [4].
• Where it is made. Lomography does not say who coats the film.
• Status. On September 30, 2026, Lomography’s shop listed the 35 mm, 120 and 110 versions in search results [1] [2] [3], and The Darkroom’s page describes it as back by popular demand with a new 2021 formula [9].

Also sold as

• LomoChrome Turquoise XR 100–400 (reported) [4]