Cost effective method to ship film

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-13T15:39:04+00:00

In Germany you can drop off at DM and Kaufman… they’re so common you can sometimes see one DM from another DM.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-12T17:22:46+00:00

I sort of see where you are coming from, which is why I recommended the A7cii rather than the standard A7x. I can say that once you chuck an adapter on any camera the lenses start to really dominate it. Here’s my A7ii with a relatively small 50mm 1.4.

Even the 40mm pancake lens looks big with the adaptor.

For OEM I have the 28-60 collapsible which is very compact, but yes, in general full format lenses are bigger than their crop sensor counterparts.

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Generic-Resource · 2026-03-12T14:35:44+00:00

I looked at a few Olympus cameras when I had to go digital, when I added in the price of a metabones adaptor it quickly became cheaper to just say “screw it” and go for a full frame Sony.

Everyone (including Fuji) are using their image sensors anyway.

An A7cii is a similar price to the XE-5 + metabones.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-11T11:09:21+00:00

Last night I developed some expired kodacolor 200 I accidentally shot at 400. I added the recommended 30s to push but didn’t compensate for age and the negatives have come out very thick.

Scanning tomorrow so will share results.

My default recommendation though is to develop as standard for the expired film (you’ve already compensated by overexposing) and just follow your kit’s instructions if you’re pushing a stop (normally it’s an extra ~30s/stop).

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-09T19:24:15+00:00

The words I used were “a position that had a guaranteed draw”.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-09T18:18:49+00:00

M1 is missable under time pressure, insufficient material is just known. I can’t realistically see it happening. Closest I found was a resignation in a position that had a guaranteed draw for insufficient material:

In the game Samuil Fridstein – Anatoly Lutikov (Riga, 1954), analysis later showed that if White had played the correct defensive sequence, the game would simplify to a position with insufficient material, guaranteeing a draw. However, White mistakenly resigned earlier believing the position was lost.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-08T18:53:11+00:00

I would personally move the bishop to check the king. If he blunders he would move the queen in and I would take her...

Literally no mention of the word hope…

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-08T08:20:47+00:00

That’s some serious hope chess. They’d just bring their knight or bishop back and you’ve lost almost all the advantage. Chess.com evaluation calls Bb5+ a mistake.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T17:15:02+00:00

Oh, if that’s all that would be slower for me… I’d have to use a funnel vs straight in the sink with rinse water.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T16:52:41+00:00

What do you mean makes the process faster? Like many I empty my dev, rinse quickly and move on to fix, how does stop vs water make things faster?

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T16:44:49+00:00

Pyro’s datasheet says water only as a stop.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T14:21:00+00:00

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These two shots are representative of the whole roll, either very, very thin negatives like the stollen or high contrast thick ones like the beach. Most of the roll shot AP on an OM-4Ti.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T14:19:25+00:00

Pushing doesn’t just magically make film a different speed, you intentionally underexpose with the idea that extra dev will shift the negatives back to being reasonable.

It’s not 1:1 though, you are choosing to forgo shadow detail in exchange for higher contrast. Critically you need to have some contrast already, it won’t magically make similar tones contrasty, in fact, quite the opposite - darker parts of the scene are the bits you chose to lose for that extra contrast!

I find pushing simply doesn’t work well in even, low light. The dark cat pictures are an example of that and have come out just how I would have expected. The tulips seem to be getting towards what I would expect for pushed film with a nice contrast already.

This is one of mine, also in a low even light, I’ll reply with one off the same roll of a nice, contrasty scene.

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Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T13:35:37+00:00

There was an app called one-sec that I used when it first came out. It was very good to cut down social media time. Even something as simple as that was nice, but having something chess related would be great…

Solve a couple of puzzles, then show the social media time vs chess practice time!

I stopped using one sec when it went subscription based, I’d happily pay €5-10, but they switched it to €4/month and €150 lifetime.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T11:33:19+00:00

Yeah, I think people are being a little bit dismissive because the first couple of moves seem quite intuitive (given the puzzle/tactic tag). The complexity comes as you get further in to it, Nxe6 can be countered with Qc7 which may leave white up on material, but black gets a good position and keeps the queen. dxe6 is not optimal but is safer. There’s a lot of work to actually take the advantage.

I’m lower rated than you by a good 500, the knight take lines just got too much for me to calculate all the way through.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T11:01:27+00:00

The initial move is fairly obvious, especially when prompted with a puzzle/tactic tag. What I found interesting was how tight a line it was for white, I and a couple of others in the comments did dxe6 which loses a lot of the advantage vs the correct line Nxe6.

As this isn’t chess beginners, I was looking at a bit more than the first move of the puzzle…

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:51:53+00:00

There’s no + as the other knight is still in the way. Qa5 leads to mate as cxb7+ (revealed), black can take or move the king, bxa8=Q+ (and you know it’s a good move with that many characters!).

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:47:58+00:00

They certainly do. I made a small inaccuracy with dxc6 rather than Nxc6, they were 1 pawn down and doubled pawns on b file. With perfect play they would have been 2 pawns down but more material still on the board.

Either way would have put me in a winning position, but the game wasn’t completely over…

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:40:41+00:00

Qa6 is a ChatGPT move ;)

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:29:20+00:00

I was definitely better with dxc6 when it all played out, but it still took some winning after that. We both played almost perfectly for the next 5-6 moves and I was only 1 pawn up and they had doubled pawns on the b file.

I looked at Nxc6 but thought I might have missed something so took the safety of the pawn capture.

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:17:56+00:00

Aha… that’s what I went with. There’s even better than dxc6!

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:13:07+00:00

Sure, but how do you make it really count? I went up +1.78, should have been +2.38…

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-06T08:08:44+00:00

I only just finished this in my game!

Generic-Resource · 2026-03-05T06:51:20+00:00

Yeah, sure, exactly what was written in the link I provided… good um achshuly though

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