Hello, I recently acquired a Kodak infrared color film thats been kept frozen ever since the previous owner purchased it in 2002. I'm pretty unknowledgeable when it comes to film development so I was wondering what I have to tell the film studio on how to develop it. I know that the box says to develop E-6 but from what I know it is no longer used anymore(?). Thanks for the help in advance!
E-6 is still widely used (relatively speaking) as it is the process, for "regular" slide film. I have used similarly stored Kodak EIR, and have had the lab process it normally, in E-6 chemistry, with good results.
E-6 is still widely used (relatively speaking) as it is the process, for "regular" slide film. I have used similarly stored Kodak EIR, and have had the lab process it normally, in E-6 chemistry, with good results.
Oh and one question, I also read somewhere that you need a yellow filter for infrared color photos. Is the outcome drastically worse if you don't use a yellow filter?
Yes! You need to a use a 12 Yellow or a 16 Orange filter, with color infrared film. If you don't, your images will have a blue-magenta cast to them. This cast can be strong enough to ruin the images, such that even with digital post-processing of the scans, you likely won't be able to salvage them.
Aha I actually have an orange filter so i'll make sure to use that! Thanks again
Try it with and without -- and with any other filters you have, or can borrow.
Any photo lab is going to have E-6 chemicals.
As I recall, it only came in 36 exposure rolls. Is that correct????
Are you sure about the Kodak Ektachrome IR film is to be processed in E6? And not in the long time discontinued E4?
In the last few posts I am now confused.
So all Kodak IR film is in fact "slide/chrome called Ektachrome and needs E6 so does that mean you end up with a slide and if you want prints then presumably labs fine this an easy and perfectly good transition? However one post says not to worry about finding a lab that does E6 as it can be processed very nicely in C41 which all labs have?
Can anyone clarify?
Thanks
pentaxuser
So from what you know of the results of the two processes which one gíves this look or do both have the same effect on green to magenta but perhaps render other colours differently?
if you want prints
In those few cases of that happening it would appear that C41 is the way to go with Kodak IR colour
Some do, some don't. It's especially medium format and larger, and it depends a lot on where you are and who you know. Moreover, keep in mind that a good 95% of the enlargers in existence up to around 2002 or so have since been scrapped, so what's left is a tiny fraction of what was around. If you then see a small uptick in demand, prices soar.I sometimes wonder how secondhand enlargers still seem to command such high prices
The vast majority of the present generation shooting film never sets foot in a darkroom or touches a darkroom print made from their own film. So "almost everybody" is indeed correct.as everybody or almost everybody is using what we call the hybrid process
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