Is this effect achieved through a camera filter or is this a post processing effect?

[Gibsonfan159]

The question is in regards to this photo of Jimmy Page from 1977.

How would one achieve this type of effect? Or any guess at what might've been used here would be helpful.

 

[cgw]

Cheap prism filter plucked from the dusty bins of late 70s Adorama?

 

[Nikon photographer]

Cheap prism filter plucked from the dusty bins of late 70s Adorama?

Strategy I still have one lurking in one drawer in the office, a Cokin filter, as you say from the 1970's

 

[Gibsonfan159]

Cheap prism filter plucked from the dusty bins of late 70s Adorama?

Any chance the effect could be from a film/movie camera?

 

[Soocom1]

Def. filter.
had one, was really fun with stars, and other psychedelic effects.

Groovy?



ya dig?

 

[cgw]

Photo swap meets usually feature tables of damp basement-scented boxes full of 70s vintage Japanese "special effect" filters. I'm guessing the "look" has about the same chance of a comeback as Jimmy's wardrobe. But at least now you know, right?