What belongs here
AvoidXray is for photographs shot on film. If it went through a camera on a roll, it belongs here.
Film only
Shot on actual film, in an actual camera, on a roll that actually went through a lab. Scanning it with your phone is fine. Starting with your phone is not.
No film filters
Dazz, Fuji sims, digicams doing an impression. If it never touched a roll, it doesn't count. Nothing personal, your photos are probably great, they just belong somewhere else.
Tag your camera and your film
This is the whole reason the site exists. Someone out there is deciding whether Gold 200 is worth it, and your photo is the argument.
Go easy on the editing
Heavy edits are fine, it's your photo, just post those somewhere else. Here, someone's going to buy that roll because of your frame and wonder why theirs looks nothing like it. Color, dust, straightening: all fine, that's just getting to the negative. Grinding off the grain is where it stops being useful. Halation is a feature.
Bad roll? Post it anyway
Green cast, dead shadows, color all over the place, expired weirdness. Don't edit it into looking normal. Post it and say what happened in a community note on the film or camera page: expired, pushed two stops, sat in a hot car, lab did something strange. A wrecked frame with the story attached is worth more to the next person than another clean one.
Don't upload other people's work
You know this one.
Not sure what you shot?
A thrifted camera with half a roll already in it, a lab envelope with nothing written on it. Say you’re not sure instead of leaving it blank. Someone usually recognizes it from the frame edges, and you can come back and fix it later.
Something look wrong?
If you spot a photo that doesn’t belong here, or you think yours was removed unfairly, email a@zigao.wang. Paste the link to the photo so we can actually go and look at it.