April 28, 2024
From roll #1 + SOTQ April 28
a set of pictures from that first roll of film
State of the Queues April 28
April 28, 2024:
Recall that last week Jetphotos started a new queue limit of 10 daily slots for all uploaders; it might be a bit early yet, but so far the queue lengths remain unchanged. I have three weeks of the upload numbers that I remembered to capture, once three weeks has passed since the intervention, I’ll run some statistics to see if there’s any appreciable change.
| Site | Queue Length (# of photos) | Last fully screened day | Number of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jetphotos | 26,025 (incr.) | April 11, 2024 | 17 days (incr.) |
| Airliners.net | 5,965 (similar) | April 8, 2024 | 19 days (unch.) |
see las week’s SOTQ for more historic data, April 21 numbers at the end of the article
From the dark room
Film doesn’t store any “EXIF” data regarding the exposure, so going by memory most of the day was shot at f/8 with a shutter speed of 1/2000 and the ISO 400 film. I think one of the challenging things about film is loading up in the morning and trying to anticipate the lighting conditions.
On a digital body, changing ISO is trivial and takes two taps on the back panel or a quick turn of a wheel. You can even use “auto ISO” in M mode to set aperture and shutterspeed and the camera will choose ISO automatically based on the light meter. (There’s a thought that this is a great way to shoot, since the aperture which controls depth of field and the shutterspeed which introduces motion blur/freezes motion are the main creative elements of exposure). I think like any other tool it is situational.
You are pretty much committed to the ISO when you load the camera for the next 24 or 36 exposures depending on the length of the film.
Short aside: it is actually possible to switch mid roll, but it’s a bit laborious. Mid roll rewind with the leader out, reloading the film and then pressing the shutter “x” number of times until you’re back on the old frame (with the lens cap on of course).
Here’s 5/36 of the pictures, straight lab scans. I’ve “home-scanned” some negatives as well which will be in a future article re: small differences between the two procceses.
Parallel approaches from Sunwing and Air Canada (full image from last weeks blog header)
Air Canada 737 Max 8 touches down.
Aer Lingus A330 short final and very short final.
Here’s a one of the very few duds. Can’t hide the mistakes of film by just hitting delete! They WILL get developed with the rest of the frames like it or not! They WILL be seen (by the lab tech at least!)
Previous Week
April 21, 2024:
| Site | Queue Length (# of photos) | Last fully screened day | Number of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jetphotos | 24,724 (incr.) | April 6, 2024 | 15 days (incr.) |
| Airliners.net | 5,903 (similar) | April 2, 2024 | 19 days (unch.) |