Topic: Cinestill 800t results not as expected. Any ideas?

[Pete_R]

Posting this on behalf of a friend. He sent me this:

"My question is about the latest film I used while in Portugal. It was a cinestill 800t film which I bought locally and many of the photos came out like the one attached (dark, too grainy, colours are faded). is it because I traveled back to the UK and my camera with film inside went through the airport scanner?"

[Bryan]

It's a tungsten balanced film, best for use in low light.  It's color balanced for tungsten light, without an 85 or 85b filter you will get a blue cast in daylight.  That's what your example looks like to me.  At 800 ISO it could have been fogged by an X-Ray as well.  Anything over 400 shouldn't go through most X-Ray machines.

[Pete_R]

It's a tungsten balanced film, best for use in low light.  It's color balanced for tungsten light, without an 85 or 85b filter you will get a blue cast in daylight.  That's what your example looks like to me.  At 800 ISO it could have been fogged by an X-Ray as well.  Anything over 400 shouldn't go through most X-Ray machines.

Thanks Bryan. I've never used cinestill so couldn't help much. I'll pass your comments on.

[Francois]

Yeah, for travelling, they say to actually bring two bags.
One transparent for hand checking. If they decline, Domke now make some heavily shielded lead bags just for that.
Since they won't be able to see what's in the bag, they have to open it and do the hand check you asked for in the first place.