spiderbraids

Or, an imminent lack of Vision :-\

It's been quite a bit since I used cine film, and judging from this post I might not have the opportunity to use it for much longer :-\ (Petapixel article on why, but long story short, there are essentially two Kodaks, and the one selling regular film doesn't want the other one to sell cine film to anyone except film production companies) Anyways, this one's Vision3 500T (now THB 270), half-frame in Kodak H35, with the usual problems of having the scan returned as full frames (because my ECN2 lab only does it that way) where having bright scenes and dark scenes on the same frame result in over/underexposure in the scans :-\

( All shook up )

Presenting a more stream-of-consciousness-ish diary for the 2025 Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier :-)

( The rainy farce in Thailand )

Following the exploits of Thailand's women's cricket at the 2025 Women's ODI World Cup qualifiers :-)

( Read more... )

Time for some more randomness... I obliquely referenced this in an otherwise unrelated Winx cuts article, but here's a timely deep dive on the Thailand women's cricket team :-) I had actually wanted to contact with a site that covered non-mainstream cricketing nations about this stuff, but their contact form didn't work even after I filled out the necessary fields (no, I didn't try to submit what you're about to read into the form, just a few talking points) I also prepared something to potentially serve as the bones of an article on the team... and here it is :-)

( Howzat )

After a delay for season 34 before airing as a weekend strip, then skipping 35 at first, then having to hastily strip the first few eps of 36 to catch up with America, then airing an edited-down version of 35 after 36, we're back to the normal practice of same-day as the US broadcasts... (and apparently, still going 90 minutes per ep, even though there's no strike anymore)

( But first, some loose ends to tie up )

( Of opera, mochi, origami, and rice )

As mentioned last time, I got two rolls of Orwo film from my usual lab earlier in 2024, and just before finishing up the NC500 in half-frame, I started shooting the NC400 with the Kodak M35 after New Year's :-) Its (supposedly) "cooler" tone aside, it seems to have the same graininess and reduced level of sensitivity as its lower-numbered sibling, as I got 30 scans out of 36, and many of the scans that did come out were quite underexposed, even with flash :-\

( New year, new roll )

New year, "new" film brand :-)

In the early part of 2024, I got one roll each of the newly-revived German film company Orwo's color films, NC400 and NC500, on separate trips to my usual lab (IIRC, THB420 and THB380, or USD12 and USD11, respectively; I do remember the NC500 having a low price for an ISO 400 film) Despite the names though, both are nominally ISO 400, and I decided to try the NC500 first, in the Kodak H35 from October 2024 to January 2025 :-)

In fact, this forum post suggests it should be treated as ISO 250, and many of the shots turned out rather darker/grainier than I would have expected from an ISO 400 film... The most telling sign of this is that I only got 61 scans from back from the lab, compared to 77 from the previous half-frame roll, with a few of the scans straddling the frame boundary (That said, it also seems to overexpose the sky easily) This review says that NC500 is based on an old Agfa cinema film, also noting that "NC500 is not a true-to-life film" and adding that the color is "de-saturated, slightly under-exposed when shooting at box-speed, low in contrast, high in grain, very green and very yellow", which looks about right from my results...

( A tale of Orwo )

Somehow, there've been enough EPG fails in 2024 to warrant a 4th post of these...

( EPG fails, round 4 )

Time to bring it home :-)

( Of caves, recycling, hurling, and grunge )