Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread Steve Larson
Bob, [snip] My personal experience is that a roll of PJC1600, not in camera, withstood 4 passes through these X-ray machines (plus on year in the back of a Toyota Supra in the California sun) and still produced the photo below. http://www.photocritique.net/g/s?zzyHLn-p29100445 Very nice

Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread Bob Blakely
. - Original Message - From: "Steve Larson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:59 AM Subject: Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd) Bob, [snip] My personal experience is that a roll of PJC1600, not in camera, withstood 4 passes through t

Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread Steve Larson
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd) This is the text that goes with the image: -- About 10:00PM. There had been a rain. This is my favorite part of Toronto, and this is how I remember it.

OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread mike wilson
Peter Smith wrote: Experienced astronauts talked about "seeing" radiation flashes probably caused by particles passing across the retina (or maybe through the brain). Put a whole new light (sorry) on the "moon photos were faked in." conspiracy theories. Ten days in space with no

Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread John Francis
mike wilson wrote: Put a whole new light (sorry) on the "moon photos were faked in." conspiracy theories. Ten days in space with no (effective) protection should have _some_ effect on film, shouldn't it? Yes, it should. But the film wasn't ten days in space with no effective

Re: OT:RE: Chernobyl effect on film (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread Bob Blakely
Keep in mind that the US Government has flown film in space for years. Photography from spy satellites was exclusively film based for years. The satellites employed detachable reentry vehicles for the film which were snatched in mid air over the pacific by C-130s snagging their chutes. The last