What was the recommended way to prevent it from happening again?
Does bold "Photographic Film, Do Not X-Ray" help?
>
>Subject: Re: [OM] well said, Skip...
> From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:57:10 -0800 (PST)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>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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