Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes! This was a film that you did not dare put through airport x-ray machines. One of the main reasons for carrying it - back in the day - was to tell the airport screener that this film could not possibly go through the x-ray machine because it was such high speed and would be ruined. The film would have to be passed around the machine and hand-inspected. I always carried a few high-speed rolls in with my regular ones for this reason. As soon as you showed the inspectors that you had high-speed professional film, they would allow you to pass all of your film around the machines to be hand-inspected. Except in Heathrow Airport. They would never allow any film to be passed around for any reason. It all went through the x-ray machine and high speed films were ruined. Thank God for digital cards! It is so much easier to travel now. Tina On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:41 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Tina Manley SHOWED: > Subject: [Leica] IMG: TMZ 3200 > > > Hi Tina, > That TMZ-3200 Looks like some I had in the freezer some years ago and > unfortunately Irene had buried it under some frozen foods she had bought. > > About 8 months later I discovered it, used it and the grain was the size > of house bricks! :-( > > I enquired of our Kodak rep....... a very astute gal with almost every > technical question you could ask and she could answer right off the top of > her head without referring to anything. > > Much to my surprise she said... "3200 film should be used as soon as > possible, don't have it hanging around for months, particularly if you > should push it a stop or two." > > Why?" I asked. > > SHE.. responded, "Well it's such a sensitive film that unless you use it > as soon after purchase, the radiation levels of Planet Earth will begin to > fog it. Or start a form of exposure. That actually begins the day the film > is manufactured whether the film is in a freezer or wherever? The effect is > going on all the time due to radiation levels of the planet! So if you're > working with it always get it exposed and souped as soon as you can." > > So crew, given Tina's grainy photo triggered that bit of long ago KODAK > conversation from many years past, I wondered has anyone ever heard of > that before? I can see it as a possible with 3200 TMAX, but have always > been left with a bit of a question mark how bad it might get and whether my > "what appeared super grainy size images were actually due to what she said? > Or just pushing it to 6400? And or maybe? A bad moment of film souping?" > > Thoughts and or answers? Of course it's an almost waste of time question > now most are shooting digital. It's purely a curiosity driven question aat > this point? Oh and of course, I exposed all film with a Leica "M?" camera. > ;-) > thanks, > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > > > > > > Here is why some of my scans are so grainy. This is TMZ 3200 as you can >> see by the film canisters that Junior is holding. >> >> http://www.pbase.com/image/**149007766<http://www.pbase.com/image/149007766> >> >> The kids love empty film canisters and use them for soldiers and cars and >> all kinds of toys that they invent. As long as I can keep the exposed >> film dry, if I don't have to carry the canisters back home, that's fine! >> >> Besides the obvious grain, C&C greatly appreciated!! >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com