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Re: [OM] well said, Skip...

Subject: Re: [OM] well said, Skip...
From: "Mickey Trageser" <Gad-Zuiks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:11:09 -0500
So what now? UPS Ground? Is it really ground, all the way, all the time?

--Mickey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] well said, Skip...


> Skip wrote:
> >Yes, I sent some film to Ken for processing and somewhere
> >between NJ and Iowa it got X-Ray'ed, which increased the
> >background by about one stop.  Interestingly enough, another
> >set of rolls sent the exact same day to Arizona had no damage. 
> >This leads me to believe that it's somewhere outside of NJ,
> >since all my mail goes through Newark.  Or I was the
> >unfortunate recipiant of a random x-ray
> 
> I had a brief "sit-down" with my postmaster about this.  We
> calculated that it was one, or a combination, of the following:
> 
> -Newark center nuking in/out first class mail.
> -Chicago center nuking in/out first class mail.
> -Airline baggage X-ray damage for the transit between Newark and
> Chicago or Chicago and DesMoines.
> 
> We suspect that this particular shipment MAY have been damaged
> by the airlines.  Of course, the postmaster will blame somebody
> else.
> 
> Now, how extensive was the damage?  Compared to a "control" roll
> processed at the same time, the film was damaged, yet usuable. 
> Test prints showed that even the D400 pushed to 1600 was
> acceptable with additional contrast control.  If I was fine-art
> printing anything off of it, I would use split-grade printing. 
> Scanning and "photoshoping" is a non-issue, except for a
> grainier scan.
> 
> That said,
> 
> The apparent "grain-structure" was altered.  Skip's rolls of
> Delta 100 looked more like Plus-X or FP-5.  Not the normal
> creamy look you expect with D100.  It wasn't my chemistry,
> because my own rolls of film processed simultaneously were OK. 
> There was no apparent increase in base-fog, but the emulsion was
> noticably coarser than what I'm accustomed to seeing.
> 
> The Delta 400 (shot and processed at 400) had the same
> grain-altered effect, but had a noticable base fog.  The roll of
> Delta 400 pushed to 1600 had at least a Zone II base fog.  At
> least there was shadow detail!
> 
> Yes, these rolls exhibited all the standard traits of X-Ray
> damage, such as sprocket holes, increase in density and the
> classic--film exposed outside the sprocket holes for the first
> part of the roll.
> 
> AG Schnozz
> 
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