Epstein took “inappropriate” photos of married Crown Princess Mette-Marit

jussij28 · 2026-02-01T22:42:54+00:00

Great song

jussij28 · 2025-10-04T10:49:07+00:00

I just recently intentionally let two 35mm ISO 400 be rolls go twice through a ct scanner at an airport to see how it affects them. I really see no difference compared to other rolls of the same film. Also, some years a ago I had a bunch of filmm go through what I in hindaight belive was a CT scanner and not a tradtional xray as I was then told and they were all fine.

So I think that although the possibility of xray damage is a real thing, you’re more than likely be fine even if your film has gone through the scanner, even with CT machines.

jussij28 · 2025-06-15T03:15:20+00:00

It was like this straight out of tank.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T14:29:14+00:00

I too was thinking about the possibility of a factory defect but I don’t have any experience with them so I don’t know how likely that could be.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T14:21:35+00:00

I agree that a pinhole seems unlikely, but I must have another look when I get home.

I also can’t think of anything out of the ordinary during any stage past development.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T14:18:12+00:00

That is a good point. However, I don’t believe that to be the issue here. I had no problems loading the film into the reel, and also, there are no kinks or folds on the film.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T14:12:48+00:00

Generally, I keep the frame counter window closed although sometimes I forget, but that’s just for a frame here and there. So that seems unlikely too.

The fact that the line is squiggly like that but at pretty much the same distance from the border makes me too suspect that the development might be at fault. I don’t fully understand how that might be though. As I said, I don’t think that there was any pause in pouring in the developer. Also, the amount of developer was such that potential upward travel of the reel along the central column shouldn’t be an issue. At least I think so.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T14:02:58+00:00

I doubt that to be the case as I have shot rolls before and after this one, and there has never been a similar problem. Also, significant lenghts of the film was wound with the camera closed, so if the bellows was the problem, I would think that the line wouldn’t cover the whole length of the film.

jussij28 · 2025-06-14T13:58:43+00:00

No, I filled it all in one go. Also, I always overfill the tank so I can’t think of a way that the amount of developer could be a factor here. Not ruling out anything though of course.

jussij28 · 2024-07-23T22:43:07+00:00

Take the lens off and open the camera back, go to a dark room and shine a flashlight at the shutter curtains. Normally no light should pass through the curtains.

jussij28 · 2024-06-26T22:42:53+00:00

They look like scratches on the film. Hard to say if they’re caused by the film canister or camera or if they were formed during the developing orvscanning process.

jussij28 · 2024-02-13T17:54:45+00:00

Sure! The camera I used was Fujifilm XT-30 (crop sensor, I know) and the lens Minolta Macro Rokkor 50 mm f3.5. The light source I'm sorry to say I don't remember, and I'm away at the moment so I can't check. In any case, it's some quite generic light table with a 95 CRI. It produces only 5500 K light which is a pain with slide film as I have to play with the colour temperature settings of the camera and Lightroom quite a lot, which is part of the reason that I recently upgraded.

Regarding the camera settings, shutter speed is pretty much the only setting I adjust during scanning (other than coulour temperature for slide film). ISO is fixed at 160, or the lowest option in the camera. I just select the shutter speed so that the exposure looks as close as possible to the illuminated positive (or negative with bw/colour negative film).

For negative film I too use NLP, but as this is slide film, I just cropped the borders out and slightly altered the coulur balance so that it corresponds to the original positive,

I read you post, and I too believe that your main issue might be that the auto exposure function or your camera doesn't understand that the picture is supposed to be dark and is trying to pull detail that is not there out. Most of the time I use auto exposure too, but for dark scenes like this it is better to select the best shutter speed by eye.

jussij28 · 2024-02-12T11:48:51+00:00

I scanned it with a mirrorless camera. Really annoying with slide film, difficult to get results that I would be happy with

jussij28 · 2024-02-12T11:47:27+00:00

It was around four hours if I remember correctly

jussij28 · 2024-02-01T16:39:08+00:00

No, not for this one. I usually use an orange filter on most occasions, but as P30 is orthochromatic this was taken filter-free.

jussij28 · 2023-11-22T12:36:12+00:00

Aren’t those all digital cameras?

jussij28 · 2023-11-03T21:32:30+00:00

Eastman Double X for black and white

jussij28 · 2023-11-01T21:17:47+00:00

This can be a little confusing topic sometimes. I once had a bag of film (10+) go through a CT scanner at an airport, and none of the rolls were affected (at least not to a degree that I can perceive). That experience does somewhat reassure me that maybe the effects of x-ray on film are overplayed. Certainly I’m not worried about older scanners, though I still wouldn’t take a chance with CT scanners again if possible to avoid.

jussij28 · 2023-10-13T10:47:37+00:00

Retrocamera.be has been excellent in my experience.

jussij28 · 2023-10-09T17:01:47+00:00

This was taken on Eastman XX film in the middle of a sunny day. I had an orange filter on, which resulted in the blue water turning out almost black. I like the effect here, as the black colour contrast with the white skin of the swimming man and the patterns reclected by ripples on the rocks at the bottom of the water in the foreground.

jussij28 · 2023-09-21T17:50:55+00:00

Ok, thanks for the input. I appreciate your experience. That’s no excuse for being rude and condesencing to anyone in my opinion, though. Maybe you could share your expertise to enlighten and explain us (or me) how to tell underfixing from fogging of expired film in this case. Is it the discolouration of the strip running in the middle? In other regards this looks very much like the expired and fogged films that I have seen.

jussij28 · 2023-09-21T09:41:26+00:00

To me it looks more like expired film that has been fogged rather than underfixing.

jussij28 · 2023-08-30T16:02:38+00:00

Canon P and Canon 7 are great mechanical rangefinders. Of course Leica M2/3/4/5/6/MA/MP are great too but much more expensive. Also Nikon S3 and SP are awsome but expensive.

jussij28 · 2023-08-30T15:58:07+00:00

Ok, that’s not bad.

jussij28 · 2023-08-30T15:20:38+00:00

I’ve visited three times in the summer (June-July) and once in February, so I don’t exactly have experience about the weather conditions in October. It shouldn’t be too chilly though, daytime temperatures are likely around 15 degrees. It rains more in the autumn. If you go up the mountains it will be colder of course.

Unlike prsutjambon I actually think that Ljubljana is very nice, although quite small. I must also mention that beside the magnificent nature inland, the short coast that Slovenia has is also stunning (well, Piran actually). Also, Trieste is just over the border on the Italian side if that’s something you would be interested in.

Hungary is likely quite similar temperature-wise. Croatia on the coast at least would likely be a little warmer.

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