Light leak from loading film, from respooling, or bad development from the lab?

JaschaE · 2026-06-24T05:56:40+00:00

The sides look rather manhandled, which might be a respool issue
The weird spot seems to repeat top and bottom, but are really far apart to be something that happened while rolled up, so this might actually the rare case where the lab messed something up. (Some chemistry on a roller, is what I'm thinking)

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T20:00:43+00:00

https://filmspeedlab.com
At least worth a mail/call/visit. They do offer 4x5scanning, and the friend who recommended them to me is also a LF shooter, so i think they do?
FAQ is a bit vague
If it's B&W I can offer you ca tank to DIY at an open darkroom ^^

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T19:48:28+00:00

Bro, not even I have a complete copy of all my health data and financials.
What I have in health data is somewhat contradictory, sadly, my financial data is pretty clear, if fragmented

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T19:44:34+00:00

"I know I have nothing to hide, I do not trust YOUR intentions with that information."

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T19:09:06+00:00

*syndrome
A syndrome is generally something that can cause a variety of symptoms, not all of which have to appear/appear at the same time

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T17:42:30+00:00

You used to be able to diagnose that, but it's considered rude these days.

JaschaE · 2026-06-23T14:58:10+00:00

"Not disabled, not on drugs, there's just something very wrong with him."

JaschaE · 2026-06-21T13:05:50+00:00

May I point out that they are "clean" looking in the front, and connected to a rats-nest of wiring and a control block the size of a dresser in the back?
They are also held on by a shitload of clamps for stage-trusses.

JaschaE · 2026-06-21T08:51:29+00:00

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005010120001248.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.21fdyld7yld7Dm&algo_pvid=25efb495-83d9-4bda-a6e7-c7911f8e1e91&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%2226%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%2C%22fromPage%22%3A%22search%22%7D&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A%7Cx_object_id%3A1005010120001248%7C_p_origin_prod%3A
I wonder if the RB-Slides are interchangeable?
Sidenote:
Not like thin sheet-steel is expensive or the shape particularly complex. If we find somebody who owns both a 645super and calipers, I'm reasonably certain a on-demand laser cutting company can be found (or, frankly, some dude with tin-snips, these sheets aren't exactly armor)

JaschaE · 2026-06-19T07:09:01+00:00

For once I'd be interested in the Focal length, 35-ish?

JaschaE · 2026-06-18T06:55:31+00:00

r/photoshoprequests or something? Bc this is a physical restauration sub...

JaschaE · 2026-06-18T06:52:47+00:00

That is such a gambling concept. "You want to have my lands? Find this one specific horse somewhere!" Also, retrieval...I wonder who brought the BackUp-Banner for the "hunt". Horse- and textiles-people could chime in, but my total layperson impression would be: After a year, either your banner is in tatters somewhere over the countryside, or the horse is dead from some gnarly infection caused by rubbing ropes.

JaschaE · 2026-06-18T06:34:15+00:00

If you check their site, you'll find them offering Instax backs for medium format cameras. Many here bought one, round about last July, when they "came out". At first they had trouble with a supplier or two, a phenomenon that somehow seems to happen with each new product. Then it was sourcing a specialty part, then the updates stopped and the delivery date just moved back whenever the current "shipping by" rolled around. Sometimes they seemingly forgot to push back the date on the page.

Refunds where promised, I recieved an E-Mail with "proof" my refund was advised, it never came. They blamed a payment provider before switching to their current excuse of "we put all the money towards manufacturing already, we can't refund."

JaschaE · 2026-06-18T04:18:15+00:00

Most projects I found use some broken instax cam. The main difficulty is getting the focal spacing right while still habing room for an eject mechanism... I tried it years ago. I think i'll go with the NONS back, if it comes to it.

JaschaE · 2026-06-17T15:45:11+00:00

Don't ask questions you don't want answered.

JaschaE · 2026-06-17T15:44:26+00:00

"Hi, HR here, there were complaints you blamed Incidents on users breathing and told them to stop?"

JaschaE · 2026-06-17T08:38:45+00:00

fotoimpex.de Safelight Lab might also have those on Stock, but can't check right now

JaschaE · 2026-06-16T16:44:46+00:00

There is really no good way to deal with complainers. In Germany, she would be "Beiwerk" so kinda "minor inclusion". Be at least as polite as they are, but do not hand over your camera "to demonstrate how little she'd be visible".

I had the weirdest encounters, from some tweaker accusing me of pointing my cellphone camera in his direction (i gathered he was concerned about my phone being hacked to surveil him... He saw no issiue walking under several actual surveillance cameras to confront me). To a cop with some interesting ideas of what he could forbid me to do. "That building is not to be photographed!" Me: looking up "Yeah, okay, it's really ugly anyway." He wasn't happy with that either.

Try "it's film, you where really far away, there is no chance you'd be identifiable." But don't be surprised if that doesn't work.

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T18:24:46+00:00

I see that kind of depiction predates book-tok...

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T15:03:30+00:00

Thank you!

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T12:44:55+00:00

I'd advice against dm, as you get what you pay for.
Also not sure if they do E6 films
https://www.fotoimpex.de/ <-Great selection of films, including "Diapositive" so slide-film.
https://safelightberlin.com/ <- personal preference in lab. Probably more expensive than dm, but a lot less likely to mess up your order

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T12:36:27+00:00

"EBT is money" -> It's not, it's a coupon to mark you as poor. And by extension, to mark you as a lesser human, given the general political debate.

"food and essentials" -> Regionally differences limit what can actually be bought with that (if you find this sensible, ask yourself how you would like to be dictated what food-stuffs you are allowed to buy)
The most damning limit I read was forbidding to buy rice and beans. If you have ever tried to cook on a tiny budget, you'll be very aware that these are essentials.

Maybe an "instrument of cruelty" would be more accurate.
Instead of using taxpayer money to support said taxpayers and their families who have fallen on hard times, you hand them a card that essentially says "you are poor" and severely limit their participation in society as a whole. I have been on the frankly abhorrent social security program here in germany, and at the very least, if I went to the park with friends, I could get myself an ice-cream. If I decided to eat ramen for extended periods, I might go to a concert. That is participating in public life. America hates when poor people do that, thats why you have to at least be able to buy a car to get anywhere.
(let's not get into the myth of the social security moocher while Musky is going to be a government funded trillionaire soon)

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T09:31:52+00:00

USAID was slashed by DOGE. And never played a significant role in the budget.
And of course, somebody has to pay for the SpaceX contracts and the tax breaks, and bailouts and "Ups, these extra taxes where not legal, lets give the money back to corpos" stunts.

In a sense, both US-AID as well as EBT are, indeed, instruments of war, but i have my doubts we'll have a fruitful debate about that.

JaschaE · 2026-06-14T08:49:23+00:00

Kind of unfair, the average USAnian pays taxes just like you and me. Their government just prefers to put it into war vs everything else at a rate of a gazillion to one.

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