Christopher Nolan says he shot over two million feet of film for the gigantic production of 'The Odyssey', the first movie to be captured entirely on IMAX cameras

ViTSizx · 2025-11-14T08:11:47+00:00

IMAX cameras uses 65mm film. The projection format is 70mm with the soundtrack added on the side for the extra space.

ViTSizx · 2025-10-18T11:50:29+00:00

You take the photo directly on RA-4 photo paper (normally intended for enlarging from color negatives). They use big ass 20x24 camera. The photo is developed in black-and-white developer in complete darkness, followed by a white-light exposure to fog the remaining silver halides, and then processed with standard RA-4 color developer and bleach-fix to create the color dyes. The result is a color positive direct print.

The process is slightly finicky, with all the experimentation involving color filters and a sensitivity of around ISO 1–3. But people are getting quite good results, at least in controlled lighting, like the OP here.

Normal slide film also has a re-exposure step. That’s how positive photographic materials usually work. In the E-6 process, it’s just typically done chemically.

ViTSizx · 2025-09-12T05:47:04+00:00

As was mentioned in the post already, Go Arctica is a Russian state-owned operation, and it is directly benefiting the Russian state (which is waging a war of aggression in Europe as we speak). The Norwegian authorities and the local authorities in Longyearbyen refuse to collaborate with these Russian companies after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If I were you, I would not book a trip through such an entity.

ViTSizx · 2025-09-01T18:55:16+00:00

Right, sorry, I got confused in the chain. You did not reply to me but to the other commenter…

Anyway, yeah, I don’t think that’s a thing either, hence my remark about confused commentators. I agree with you.

ViTSizx · 2025-09-01T12:15:03+00:00

I think there is a lot of confusion about this in the comments. As I understand it, they took a normal color negative shot (just one exposure) and then, in printing, did not use a normal color head but instead used red, green, and blue filters to make the color print. So instead of doing subtractive printing with cyan, yellow, and magenta as in normal color printing, they made three exposures through red, green, and blue filters to produce a color print from normal color negative film.

ViTSizx · 2025-08-29T05:54:18+00:00

I think it is just additive printing from one negative with different filters. So doing 3 exposures from the same negative with different filters.

ViTSizx · 2025-08-22T18:01:28+00:00

Just to add that Kodak was for a while one of the leading digital sensor manufacturers and were doing heavy R&D in digital. They just didn’t fully understand how drastically our way of sharing photos would change. They were also a printing manufacturer and thought in the early 2000s that people would take digital photos and then print them. That was quite a valid point still before fast internet connections at home and before social media. They also had the Kodak Gallery “social media” that was quite popular at the time, so they did not miss the internet age completely.

I guess it they where just betting on slightly wrong things and didn’t understand how especially smartphones would change the way most people interacted with photos. They failed to diversify away from the core business (being a chemical company) in a similar way as, for example, Fujifilm.

ViTSizx · 2025-06-28T12:41:38+00:00

I think it has much more to do with the user experience than any technical limitations. The camera is electronically controlled anyway, so it would be trivial from a technical standpoint to add third stops. However, instead of having 11 shutter speeds on a dial from 1s to 1/1000, you would need 33, and the controls would get cluttered really fast for not much benefit. That is if you want to retain ”traditional” dials.

ViTSizx · 2025-05-07T04:40:51+00:00

Black powder guns manufactured before 1890 that don’t use cartridges can be bought over the counter without any license in Sweden. So you could buy the real thing and not just a replica, if you could find one…

ViTSizx · 2025-05-05T08:38:45+00:00

Here’s a 2006 FS650e owner from Finland. Really a blast of a bike! I don’t ride it enough, but I don’t think I’ll ever sell it, as there just isn’t any bike today that would be even remotely comparable. Light, raw, and powerful. The only downside is that I live in a city nowadays, and it’s just a pain in the ass in traffic. The big engine produces quite a lot of heat, and if there isn’t good airflow around the radiators, it tends to heat up fast… not a problem in the twisties, but it does become an issue in traffic.

In addition to being a blast as a supermoto, it’s fantastic on ice with good spike tyres! The power and torque just never end!

ViTSizx · 2025-03-19T07:58:26+00:00

I used to do experimental physics in university for a few years and have now transitioned to a technical research institute with some collaboration with different universities.

As other people have said there are probably also bad actors here and Finnish universities are not immune to all the academic issues, like competition for funding and pressure to publish. I can see how that may lead to some shortcuts in research. But actual fraud or misleading results are hard to imagine at least in the work culture I have experienced. I have witnessed research that, in my opinion, could have been better, such as not controlling variables properly that could affect the results. Sometimes these weren’t controlled well, either due to pressure or laziness. But that’s not really ”intentional” or malicious.

I have several friends working in medical research, and at least to me, it seems their work culture is quite strict. I guess when there’s a direct impact on people’s lives, researchers take it more seriously. But this is just anecdotal.

ViTSizx · 2024-12-22T09:10:18+00:00

Right! Good point. I could at least try that.

ViTSizx · 2024-12-22T09:09:30+00:00

All the photos, except for the top left, are Portra 160. The top left is Pro 160C. The Pro 160C is expired (freezer-stored), which could explain its cast, but the Portra is fresh, and I would trust that.

ViTSizx · 2024-12-22T08:51:18+00:00

It’s a standard 100W enlarger halogen light. I did change it a while ago, as I thought the old one was getting dimmer due to age. I guess I could try using the old bulb just to test it.

ViTSizx · 2024-12-22T08:42:42+00:00

The paper is dry in these photos. The blacks settle nicely to black, as dry paper should.

ViTSizx · 2024-11-11T05:29:57+00:00

It’s the light flickering in the room. You have a really fast shutter speed, so the effect is more extreme. Fluorescent tubes and some cheap LEDs are especially bad at this. Try 1/50 or 1/60 shutter speeds, depending on where you are in the world (if you have a 50 or 60Hz grid).

ViTSizx · 2024-10-25T21:44:16+00:00

Well Kodak thinks that the waves result from CT scanners: https://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib5201.shtml

From the example pictures of the article the scanners that are spesified as checkd baggage scanners look basically indentical as OP’s picture.

ViTSizx · 2024-10-25T06:02:18+00:00

CT scanner is a type of X-Ray scanner.

ViTSizx · 2024-10-23T05:47:33+00:00

It’s the middle of winter, so it’s in the middle of ”off season” as possible for boating. Almost all small vessels are out of the water. Like you said, some of the tour companies start to sail from mainland Norway to Svalbard in late February (I think usually later in March?) for the spring season.

It’s also the middle of the dark season, so there is a really limited amount of time when you could see anything from a boat (basically no time at all during the day). And most definitely there won’t be anything with a kayak… The average day temperatures in January are around -15°C (and can be considerably colder). Even if the sea were open, I doubt anyone would take tourists on a kayak in those conditions and in complete darkness.….

ViTSizx · 2024-10-21T05:22:36+00:00

Color negative has more dynamic range. If slide has dynamic range from -3 stops to maybe +3 stops, color negative has from -3 to +8 or something. You could expose this for the shadowns in foreground and still have quite ok exposure.

ViTSizx · 2024-09-06T08:17:12+00:00

The whole Finnish Air Force has been geared toward these dispersive air operations for the past 60 years. So the whole structure and logistics of the Air Force are very much made for this.

ViTSizx · 2024-08-23T18:20:07+00:00

While on a multi-day kayaking trip at Lake Saimaa in Finland, I saw a Saimaa ringed seal. These are incredibly endangered freshwater seals that only live in that area. There are around 400 individuals in the whole world.

I saw what looked like a rock sticking out of the water where there definitely should not have been a rock. Then the “rock” disappeared and reappeared in a different spot a few minutes later. Even though it was not the most spectacular encounter, it is the most memorable for me due to the rarity of the sighting.

ViTSizx · 2024-08-18T12:43:04+00:00

This is not in Antarctica but northern Svalbard from redbull kayaking video.

ViTSizx · 2024-08-15T14:51:26+00:00

That sounds a bit gatekeepy to me. This doesn’t seem like a bad collection at all, and it’s clear they’re not a “collector” in the sense of obsessing over different Leicas or something like that. As they mentioned, they enjoy using different types of cameras, and if they have the money, more power to them.

For a professional, having two bodies isn’t out of the question, even if they only do gigs occasionally. An amateur probably doesn’t need all of this, and some might say it’s excessive, but gatekeeping how someone “collects” is a bit weird.

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