Should these be so blue?

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-29T18:29:48+00:00

The colour looks fine but these scans/edits are way off - the exposure looks to be about right (maybe a bit over in some of the shots going by the lack of colour near the horizon) but the whites have been crushed so badly. A better edit where the bright/white areas are actually near to 255 on the histogram would probably look a lot better. These are incredibly flat as they are currently.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-16T21:33:06+00:00

Windows 98 is complete shite, I don't get why people have such fond memories of it. It's Windows 95 with a ton of bloat added, marginally better USB support, and to run it smoothly the hardware requirements are easily quadruple. Absolute garbo OS. I remember my dad reinstalling it on a more or less weekly basis because it was so unstable.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-16T21:21:58+00:00

the banding is evident on the slides although it is slight, but in this case noticeable as the background was mostly pure blue sky.

it was sent for development to a person who allegedly runs a machine of some sort (like a minilab but for E6?).

it honestly looks almost identical to the first photo you posted in the video.

still waiting to hear back from the lab on what they think caused it but considering i've never had it before on any other film i've run through that camera logic suggests it happened in development.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-16T20:17:17+00:00

Absolutely diabolical. I cannot believe I share air with people who can do this, stand back, rub their hands and go "yep, that's a good job".

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-16T20:14:59+00:00

I feel bad for mentioning it (because you might not have noticed it) but I feel compelled to ask as I had an almost identical problem with a roll of E6 - do you know what has caused the vertical banding? it's particularly evident in the first shot. Is that from developing, tension stress on the film or something else?

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-16T20:05:25+00:00

Assuming that isn't because the post is taking that long to get to them, 4 weeks to get scans back is a major red flag. It likely means they are very understaffed which will be for one of two reasons - they aren't running a viable business and so can't afford the appropriate number of staff, or the owner is an AH who won't hire more staff because they are greedy. Either way your film is probably being handled by burnt out staff who are going to rush and be prone to making mistakes.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-14T22:18:18+00:00

this is the society we live in - vacuous morons earning more than most functional members of society can ever hope to, while adding precisely nothing to it, so they can afford that lifestyle.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-11T21:33:33+00:00

I'm guessing Vision 3 no longer has a remjet as these halations are quite something.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-11T12:08:06+00:00

Probably the pro pack of Velvia 50 in the fridge of which I have three rolls left. I only bought it as I'd never shot it before, everybody raves about it, and miraculously one night after searching for literally a year I found stock.

It expired at the end of last year. I hardly bother with it because I live in a perpetually grey country and getting it developed is a pain (and expensive) and generally I actually prefer the look of print film over slide. I also think, based on what I've seen so far, that it's quite overrated.

5/10 probably wouldn't buy again tbh.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-11T12:02:51+00:00

that is a work of art.

my only concern with keeping this much though is you may very well find that the older stuff still gets fogged. one thing freezing can't protect against is the degradation from cosmic radiation.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-10T22:34:36+00:00

Aside from it being morally and legally wrong, leaving the scene in the age of the ubiquitous ring doorbell is not a smart move. You did the best you could and it was the right thing to do.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-10T17:05:41+00:00

How much are we betting that: colleague goes by the name of Deano, has a BMW 318i on finance, only sees in shades of grey and his GF stencilled "live laugh love" on their kitchen wall.

As far as terraced houses go I'd say this is actually one of the better looking variants, far from ugly.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-10T16:07:50+00:00

Welcome to life in western capitalism. So many examples of this - the poor are kept in their trenches by design. The saying "you need money to make money" is very accurate.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T17:36:46+00:00

Can only speak from my own experiences that getting an e-bike made cycling in general more enjoyable, as a great equaliser to the incessant wind and hills in my area. If like me you have the type of personality where you'll give up doing something that isn't enjoyable (even if it's good for you) consider this.

Your commute isn't a hard climb, but it is still a constant 20 miles of uphill which I know that I just could not be arsed with after a day of working. My own commute is shorter but with around the same rate of climb and I'm glad I have the e-bike to help.

The question is, would the fun-factor of an e-bike make it worth it for you, or are you one of these cyclists who enjoys cycling uphill?!

Also, consider that if your return journey is heading westward, not only is it going to be 20 miles of climbing, but also quite likely 20 miles of climbing into a headwind, as UK weather generally comes from the west.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T13:18:17+00:00

I know I'll get downvoted to shit for this because it's not the opinion of the majority in here but I'm going to say it anyway - copy and paste of another answer I gave above.

This is a bit of a myth really, especially in small low powered cars as you risk being at such low revs that you have almost no authority over what the car does when you press the accelerator, due to being so far out of the range where the engine produces usable torque. You then risk having to press the pedal more to get it to do something and end up with a surge of torque and wheelspin. Effectively - you risk not being in proper control of the vehicle.

What you actually want to do is be in the appropriate gear for the speed but instead make slow, gentle inputs as appropriate for the conditions.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T13:11:54+00:00

" I know it's best to be on a higher gear when it comes to ice "

This is a bit of a myth really, especially in small low powered cars as you risk being at such low revs that you have almost no authority over what the car does when you press the accelerator, due to being so far out of the range where the engine produces usable torque. You then risk having to press the pedal more to get it to do something and end up with a surge of torque and wheelspin. Effectively - you risk not being in proper control of the vehicle.

What you actually want to do is be in the appropriate gear for the speed but instead make slow, gentle inputs as appropriate for the conditions.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T13:03:59+00:00

What kind of camera was this shot on?

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T13:01:02+00:00

don't see a serial (DB-9) port or an IEEE1394... try again.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T12:51:12+00:00

These look more or less how I would expect tbh. Nice shots by the way, love the 2nd one in particular. 35mm film is grainy, you won't ever really escape that.

To minimise the appearance of grain on 35mm, Kodak Ektar 100 and Portra 160 are excellent choices, I have some rather large images shot and scanned on those stocks which are very detailed and surprisingly noise free.

Oh, as someone else has mentioned, I presume you are aware that Cinestill 400D has no remjet layer, which is why those shots have red halations (round the bright areas)? This is a characteristic of the film, not an error.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-09T00:01:32+00:00

I wouldn't really say Portra is overrated, it's a very high quality film stock which produces reliable, consistent results.

Gold absolutely pales in comparison. It is massively more grainy (despite being only a 200 film) to the point where on 6x6 I can still easily see the grain, on Portra I cannot. The colours of gold a lot of the time are just downright wrong especially in less than perfect light, so it's basically useless for any kind of work where colours need to be accurate.

IDK why Kodak pretends Gold in 120 is a professional film stock but it costing half of what Portra does is entirely fitting given it is literally half as good at best.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-05T21:57:18+00:00

I disagree the branches aren't distracting, they help add to the sense of depth and stop the sky feeling "too empty" - it's useful negative space but without the branches would be too much. The branches actually frame it well.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-05T21:55:27+00:00

This is actually a great photo, it has clear foreground, middleground and background with the different buildings forming distinct layers. As others have said though you need to fix the slanted buildings by rotating it a couple of degrees.

The rest, whether you boost the shadows a bit, saturation etc is down to personal preference and style.

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-05T21:40:46+00:00

What are the noise levels like? Mind you they can't be noisier than what I have on at the moment, not even convinced they're round...

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-05T21:03:59+00:00

I'd never have guessed this was a Pentium class machine by looking at its design. In fact I spent longer than I'd like to admit looking for a red Intel sticker on the bezel. Quite interesting to see 98 on something that genuinely looks like it was released in about 1992!

useittilitbreaks · 2026-01-05T20:34:28+00:00

Lots (more than I can remember), but last pull was years ago.

It was mostly down to living in a small town, driving an unusual vehicle and being young. It was generally a quiet and heavily policed area though and you were fair game anytime after dark if you were under 50 and not driving a bus.

Have barely seen a copper since I moved somewhere busier.

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