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pinkdrunkenelephants, in Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985

Why is that picture in black and white if it was taken in the 80’s?

Letto,

Color film was, and still is, considerably more expensive than black and white. Probably just what they had in their camera!

Also most news papers didn’t swap to color photography until the late 90s, so if it’s a reporter it’s likely they had black and white film

chiliedogg,

Color film also requires more light. By making all elements of the film sensitive to all visible light, your essentially triple it’s sensitivity to light vs color.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

🤔🤔🤔 I wonder if they still make old photo film.

Letto,

Unfortunately the only cameras that still use 35mm for sale on the market are point and shoots and leicas as far as I know. There is definitely a great variety of tested and we’ll maintained cameras for sale online.

Satelllliiiiiiiteeee,
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They do! It's relatively simple to develop black and white film too

pinkdrunkenelephants,

🤔🤔🤔

Can you still buy those types of cameras, or do you have to go to antique shops to get them?

Man, having an old camera like that would be so cool. You could use them to make movies and stuff, too, and avoid disputes over whether video was authentic or a deepfake.

RealJoL,

The cameras are still sold, ebay is filled up with them. The gain of popularity of these cameras has caused quite a spike in prices though, be aware.

Diprount_Tomato, in Solidarity in history, Yugoslavia, WW2, 1941
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Based

Novman, in Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985

Punching a radical islamist would have a very different outcome. European neonazi were and are a joke.

MicrosoftSam, in Stockholm on 'H-Day', when Sweden swapped from driving on the left-side of the road to the right, 1967

Okay but like 600 people are just in the road and that doesn’t have anything to do with which side they drive on

PugJesus,
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Event of the year, one supposes!

CosmicCleric,
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Unless they’re worth double points.

(I kid, I kid.)

clearedtoland, in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

I’m utterly oblivious about nautical life but all those sales must’ve been a bitch to manage

Alexstarfire,

Nah, they had very few customers while at sea.

Aatube,
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they're going through the roof, sir

pastermil,

You don’t think the sales are a bitch to manage on the land?? Why do you think we have all those people on the field??

clearedtoland,

It took until your comment for me to notice the typo. Now I have to leave it.

theatomictruth, in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

She was a Flying P Liner. There is a film from 1929 documenting a trip around the horn on another of those ships called the Peking, great watch with some amazing footage. Around Cape Horn (1929)

balderdash9, in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

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SARGEx117, (edited ) in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

All of my knowledge of ship design comes from internet videos and very tiny amounts of research as to how it applies to rc boat designs, so I feel like I’m 100% qualified to say:

I hate how this looks. Either redesign the leading and trailing sails, or take out two of the masts and shorten the ship.

You could show me breakdowns and scientific analysis proving it’s 9,001% better in every way, and I still won’t like it based solely off its looks.

Give me the Amerigo Vespucci any day.

Well shit, fuck me sideways for sharing an opinion of looks in a joking manner, this place is just as fucking bad as reddit. Peace out I guess

HappycamperNZ,

Somebody likes their sloop rig. Turn the tops’il into a gaff rig for extra “wanna fight bro”

Taniwha420,

Hopefully someone saltier than I can reply, but I’m pretty sure this is a windjammer, which was a derogatory name. I believe steel construction - particularly of masts and lines, like stays - allowed ships to be much longer, and taller … and they were widely regarded as unaesthetic.

Kedly,

Lmao, you show up with an extremely negative comment and then get surprised when your negativity gets responded to with negativity. Yep, must be reddit and lemmys fault!

SomeoneElse, in Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985

When I was 15 I dated an older boy who cheated on me with his adopted sister’s sister (who was 13 to his 18 years) because I wouldn’t have sex with him. Yes - all round awful. He and his sister-child girlfriend hounded me and my immediate family for months and months for some reason. We had to go to the police in the end. Many years later my nana confessed that she bumped into him in a shopping centre around that time and he pretended he didn’t know her. She chased him down and hit him upside the head with her heavily overloaded handbag while shouting “that’s for being such a little shit to my granddaughter!” Best part - the mates who were with him nearly pissed themselves laughing at him. I’ve often tried to envision the scene and it’s not unlike this photo. Love you nana.

AnUnusualRelic,
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I read all of that and really wondered where that story was going. Well done.

SomeoneElse,

I hadn’t thought about it in such a long time but it sprang to mind the second I saw that photo. And it was really late and my partner was asleep so I decided to share my weird, barely relevant, but kinda wholesome story with some strangers!

Noodle07,

I was expecting a drop through the announcer table

steakmeout,

Oh cool, bullshit revenge porn.

cheesymoonshadow, in Woman strikes a Swedish neonazi with her handbag, 1985
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The audio in my head that goes with this photo is that old woman from the original Total Recall that Arnold grabbed the case from and she yelled at him, “Fuck you, you asshole!”

ICastFist, in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954
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If they’re only checking the stomach, hiding it up your ass would work fine

UnspecificGravity, in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954

This looks like a fluoroscope, basically an X-ray that is constantly turned on. The tech is looking at a live X-ray view, not a film transparency.

The radiologic exposure for both of them is orders of magnitude higher than a normal x-ray that we think about. A normal xray exposes you for less than a second, this is bombarding him with X-rays the entire time he is standing there.

carpelbridgesyndrome,

Plus he had to do this every day at the end of his shift. Between that and the rock dust exposure I’d hate to see the cancer rates for those guys

UnspecificGravity,

I don’t think any of these folks were making it to retirement either way.

Cethin,

It’s bad for them, but imagine this doctor. He has to examine every one of them every day. If he didn’t die of cancer he must not have lived very long.

Duamerthrax,

*technician

This guy doesn’t deserve to be called a doctor.

RedAggroBest,

Just because a guy in the past was a doctor doing shitty things is no reason to shit on x-ray techs. We really shouldn’t put one type of work above another.

Duamerthrax,

X-ray techs don’t have a hippocratic oath to violate. That’s the thing separating the two in this context. If you don’t want to call him a technician, that’s fine, but he disqualified himself of being a doctor and I hope he got same the cancer he was giving out.

Vytle,

I dont understand why your shitting on this guy. Whats he supposed to do, organize a coup in the slave mine? How do you know the tech wasnt trafficked himself?

livus,
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@Vytle @Vytle Apartheid era South African history.

Basically the miners there are more likely to be coerced, through things like having been fined and the "pass" system, not trafficked.

In the case of the technician, he is almost certainly a free person. Working class whites normally earned at least 10x the wages in SA mines, even for the same job. But it is unclear whether he belongs to the Apartheid classification "white" or "coloured" (who had less rights and lower pay).

What people are shitting on is his participation in a system of oppression and segregation which devalued the lives of Black people. These mines had incredibly high tuberculosis rates too. He is also using medical technology in a reckless way that causes harm.

But I think you are right in pointing out that to some extent he is a victim of his situation /lack of education, even if he has more privileges and a better situation than the Black mine workers.

AnAngryAlpaca,

So you are saying he obtained multiple Superpowers from the ungodly amount of radiation?

UnspecificGravity,

Sure, if you consider having a shit ton of tumors to be a superpower.

100_kg_90_de_belin,

Can I throw them at my enemies?

MycoBro,

I think you may have meant “yeet” them at “solicitors”

masquenox, in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954

Yep… that diamond belongs to rich capitalists in the Global North and most definitely not to people born in South Africa - and that hasn’t changed all that much, really.

yoz, in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954

So they do xray everyday ? If yes , then fuck rich people to death.

grayman,

This is pretty far down the list as far as reasons to not buy diamonds. They’re not rare. They’re not special. It’s a rock with limited industrial use.

For added context, they’re still cutting the hands and feet off of dependents (including children) of miners to ensure they work hard.

ChickenLadyLovesLife, in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

A great book on this subject is The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby, an autobiographical account of the author’s trip around the world as a crewman on Moshulu just before WWII broke out. Interestingly, Moshulu went on to star in The Godfather Part II (as the ship that brings young Vito Corleone to the US) and is now a floating restaurant in Philadelphia.

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