M 240 to the rescue!

[Guest Gilgamesh]

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In the course of a shoot the other day, I took some images of a patient's mother holding up an X ray to a window, some close-in showing just the hands and the X rays, some wider showing her upper torso & head: 50mm, f11, 1/90th, (the 50mm doesn't focus very close in). Since then a whole raft of things have happened and various agencies have got involved.

 

In short, the child, who has an large abnormal growth coming out of her forehead, drooping below her nose is looking for a operation to save her life, she's poor, based overseas, and one organisation was going to ship her out to Korea for US$20K; it looked like a done-deal, with a TV company involved and almost US $12,000 raised to date in 4 months to date.

 

Another group of Ozzie dr's got involved this week via an NGO locally and yesterday a specialist in Hong Kong, via the same NGO's emails to say he will carry out the 12hr operation for free in China.

 

……. but can they / he please have some very close up shots of the X ray? The best two overall images (one of each X ray) that I took also included the mother's hands holding the plates and they each contained 30 X ray images of the skull, meaning I will have to go back and re-shoot. Or will I?

 

I cleaned up the 2x closest-in X-rays and then had to talk the NGO through the process of zooming in / enlarging the full sized jpeg pictures I took in the week of these X Rays, which are quite large if you've ever seen an X ray, as the HK dr wanted all the text running down the sides of each X ray image.

 

The NGO was adamant she could't read them. I knew better. It took three telephone calls to talk her through the process, and Lo! I do not have spend another 1/2 day to re-shoot these X rays as I ma now told they're perfect, they can read all the text.

 

There is still a 40% chance the child will not survive the operation and will need considerable after-care once she's back from the Chinese hospital where the operation is due to take place in Feb'. That will probably soak up the $12,000 raised thus far.

[k_g_wolf ✝]

A really great photo story, VERY unusual in many terms!

And it started with a mere photograph.

 

Thx for sharing.

 

 

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GEORG

[Bill W]

A great story. I am surprised that the x-ray images were not digital as most are these days. My wife is in radiology and they have been fully digital for a long time. All imaging is digital and are read on computer screens. They are transmitted electronically to the referring physician.

[openuser]

A great story. I am surprised that the x-ray images were not digital as most are these days. My wife is in radiology and they have been fully digital for a long time. All imaging is digital and are read on computer screens. They are transmitted electronically to the referring physician.

 

You would be surprised that some clinics/diagnostic labs still use film. I once had a chest X-ray by what seemed like an archaic machine. You should have seen my face when the technologist pulled out a huge film box from storage . Such a contrast from what I currently work with - a state-of-the-art bi-plane cardiac intervention X-ray system...