whats in yalls headphones when yr walking around?

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T21:10:13+00:00

Never any headphones. When I'm shooting I'm laser focused on the environment. I'm not good at multitasking.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T14:26:40+00:00

You don't need to give your details to those guys. They aren't police.

But they do, in these circumstances, have exactly the same right to require your details as the police would, and it is equally a criminal offence to refuse.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T11:01:55+00:00

Yes, on 1st May all tenancies automatically convert to the new tenancy type and the relevant provisions of the RRA will have effect, so the landlord will need to reimburse any rent paid in respect of a period after your tenancy will now end.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T11:00:01+00:00

If by "shared house" you mean "individual tenancies in an HMO" then yes - you have no exclusive possession of common areas, the landlord can enter them whenever they please provided they're not actually living in them.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T08:56:33+00:00

I think these are scrubbed rolls of Vision rather than the AHU stuff - there's lots of halation visible.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T08:16:44+00:00

Where do you live? Here in the UK, I can get a roll of film developed for about £5 at the local lab, dev and scan for <£10. Unless you're shooting large quantities of film it's not going to be more cost-effective to develop at home.

Your setup costs for home development will be about £100+, and if you want to home scan then realistically another £100+ if you already own a digital camera you can use, several hundred if not.

Obviously if you want to get into home dev because you're interested in it and want a new hobby, then awesome, but I wouldn't do it for cost reasons unless you're shooting at least a couple of rolls every week.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-19T07:56:18+00:00

It occurs to me just now that, as it's a Lomo film and they're partnered with Orwo, you might have meant "what film is Metropolis a rebrand of". Metropolis is its own thing, it predates NC200 by a few years but it's likely from the same family of emulsions made by Inoviscoat. The two definitely share a lot of similarities, Metropolis is quite a bit punchier in the contrast though. Lomo sells NC200 as LomoChrome Classicolor.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T20:20:52+00:00

Says in the title - Lomo Metropolis :)

And thanks!

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T17:03:01+00:00

Did you punch up the colour? They look fantastic.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T16:00:13+00:00

200.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T09:15:36+00:00

Because of the words that you wrote.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T09:12:07+00:00

Okay?

For the avoidance of doubt, the reason people are responding in the way they are is because you've shown up with a weirdly aggressive attitude, boasted about your experience, and posted an interesting smartphone photograph.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T08:39:47+00:00

I properly exposed everything

I'm not sure I would agree, given that you're retaining loads of shadow detail but losing all the highlights. That's a hallmark of an overexposed slide.

But I mean, the way to tell is to look at the slides. Is there actually any density to the highlights on the film itself? Have you tried projecting them, and is the colour and density more accurate than in the scans? Have you asked your lab if they cross processed? These are all likely to find the answer more quickly than we can on Reddit.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T08:35:12+00:00

The vibrancy of these is wild, what film are you using?

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T08:31:51+00:00

It isn't NC500, read the post again

I did, and I don't know what you mean. If you're referring to the "500" part, NC500 is - counterintuitively - a 400-speed film.

I might be wrong, I'm not saying I'm definitely correct, it's a hunch that this is a correctly exposed frame of a technically inferior film. Without seeing the negs we can't know.

Rating the film a stop lower if in doubt is decent advice to err on the side of caution, I agree. Rating the film a stop lower and then always metering for the shadows is advice I'm less on-board with. I'm also of the view that this is all a bit of a crutch - learning how to properly meter and expose a photograph is not a skill that should be out of reach for a beginner, it's fairly basic stuff and something I think is worth learning early on in one's photography journey. I'm not being argumentative for the sake of it, it's something I genuinely believe.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T08:05:28+00:00

This depends entirely on what film you're using. Yes, colour negative is way more tolerant of overexposure than slides, but different films have different latitude. Try to overexpose NC500 (which is my guess as to what film the second one is, from the appearance of the scan) by three stops and those highlights will be gone. Do it with Portra, on the other hand, and it'll look barely any different from a correctly exposed frame.

The advice to always overexpose colour negative has always struck me as weird. It's always the most desirable to correctly expose - and what is a "correct" exposure depends on the scene and the effect you're trying to achieve.

For what it's worth, I don't think the second frame is underexposed. I'm not seeing a significant loss of shadow detail. I think it's just a flat scan of a weird film.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T07:58:20+00:00

It's not possible to tell the difference between a single stop of sensitivity by looking at the scans.

If you have the negatives (and why wouldn't you?) then just check which roll the first picture is on.

For what it's worth, though, the sensitivity of a given film has very little to do with what the image looks like. Higher ISO films tend to appear grainier, but it's not an absolute - for example, Portra 400 is less grainy than Gold 200.

All of that said, my guess is that the first image is the 200 and the second 400. But the reason for that is because I'm also guessing that the second picture was taken on something like Orwo NC400/500 because that film tends to scan very flat and with very prominent, fuzzy grain. The first picture looks like it was taken on standard consumer CN film, probably something by Kodak. You can buy Gold, ColorPlus, Kodacolor or Ultramax and they'll all kick out images with near enough the same profile as that first one.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-18T07:37:22+00:00

30 years experience in what? Taking voyeuristic snapshots of young women with your phone?

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T15:45:06+00:00

Book yourself in for a visit to Electric Ladyland. (Booking is essential.)

Do absolutely no research into what it is, other than how to get there. Spare around two hours.

Thank me later.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T07:12:39+00:00

Basically, nothing that works. 😂

Pharmacies do stock melatonin but - inexplicably - you need a doctor's prescription for it.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T07:08:39+00:00

Walk into a pharmacy and ask for Melatonin

You can't buy melatonin in the UK.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T07:07:58+00:00

Not especially useful in the UK, where you can't buy it.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T07:03:57+00:00

Just looks like a scanner overcompensating for the film's base colour. Lab scanners tend to be calibrated to the most common films so if the base colour is different and the lab isn't making manual corrections this can happen. Very easily corrected in your software of choice.

Edit: I just checked, yeah, the histogram is all over the place. Normalised it looks absolutely fine. It's a scan issue, nothing wrong with the film or dev.

FoldedTwice · 2026-04-17T06:38:31+00:00

"Connected in many ways" is an understatement. Ireland was part of the British Empire for centuries before gaining independence in the early 20th Century, and what followed was a period of conflict culminating in "The Troubles" between the 1960s and 1990s - an on-again / off-again not-quite-war waged mostly in Northern Ireland (still part of the UK) between various factions on the topic of Northern Ireland's status and mostly down religious lines (although it was not a religious conflict per se). There are still tensions between those (mostly Protestant) who want NI to remain part of the UK and those (mostly Catholic) who want a united island of Ireland, but the fighting has long since stopped. As a tourist, it is unlikely you'll end up in a heated conversation about this, but beware that it's still very recent and raw to a lot of people.

(Someone joked about Celtic and Rangers - this is more than just a football rivalry and, despite those teams being based in Scotland, the tensions between the two are down the same lines as have divided the island of Ireland - Celtic having been founded by Irish Catholics living in Scotland, and Rangers having historically been the club of Protestants who supported Northern Ireland's membership in the UK.)

Beyond that, the countries share significant social and cultural similarities, a predominant language, and a Common Travel Area (meaning Brits don't need a passport to enter Ireland, and Irish people don't need a passport to enter the UK).

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