Infrared users?

How many regular users of infrared films do we have here? My favorite for now is the Konica 750 in 120. Been playing with different developers, from Technidol to Rodinal and am about to try Acufine on it to see what I can get. So far the best results I've seen have been with the Technidol, but you know the pain that one is to keep around.

Not sure if the paper and dev is still available, but I find Ektalure-G with Type2 developer is unbeatable for infrared printing.

I used to use the Konica but no one imports it into Australia anymore. I liked Rodinal 1:100 out of the 2 developers I tried. I have used a couple of rolls of Maco 820n but had to make a filter out of processed E6 film leaders to get some IR effect (aee attached test pic). Planning on buying a suitable filter at some stage.

Hi all

I work with Kodak Hie in 35mm and 4x5 I still have 9 filmpacks in my freezer!
I worked also with the Maco 4x5 and thies will be the future when im finished with the Kodaks on 4x5!

I still have some Kodak Hie available that I shoot. I have had excellent results with Tmax developer. I want to try Efke and was hoping my existing filters would work but guess they are too dark. Not looking forward to spending more money right now on the correct filter.

I also use HIE in TMax- I quite like it. SFX in HC110 is pretty good too.

Konica 120, then Ilford SFX, and in future I'll be using Maco Superpan 200.

I still have 20 rolls of my beloved Kodak 35mm Hie B&W film. I love it!

Wow, we've bumped a thread from 5 years ago! And yes I miss HIE, and have a few rolls of Maco 820 in the fridge.

Gary, I have been using efke, the rollei, a last smidge of hie, and I enjoyed a last roll or two of konica last fall. I just got a batch of superpan and will try that soon.

I am finding the slavich gr. 3 to be very useful for prints from my ir negs.

I've been using what little Konica 120 I have with PMK; it seems to work just fine, although I think printing larger than 11X14 would get awfully grainy. Also, I don't see the white foliage I used to with the old Kodak 4X5. I suppose it's because I haven't spent the requisite hundreds of dollars for the correct filter. I am using a #87 I think. Is there a reasonably priced filter that would give better results?

One of my all time favorite films was/is Kodak's aerial version of HIE, in 70mm. I still have about 100' of it left in the fridge. Unfortunately, when it is gone, there will be no more. I like to process it in MCM100, which gets rid of the rather rocky grain which HIE often exhibits. I shoot it through an optically flat hard plastic IR filter that I get from Edmund Scientific, 4x5 sheet of it is about $13. I prefer less infrared look rather than more, and this filter does the job just fine. The max effect seems kind of gimmicky to me.

Sean, I am sorry to have to confirm what you most likely already suspect. The favorite paper that you mentioned for printing IR, Ektalure G, is no more, since Kodak got out of the paper business. It was a paper that was widely used in portrait studios which could control their light and process uniformity making the unigrade practical. Since portrait studios have left analog, there would be very little market for it; I'm sure it is one of the products that Kodak dumped very early in their frenzy of discontinuances. I used it with Beers in two trays and found it very flexible. I've got about 50 sheets of it left. That's it.

I just remembered and checked Freestyles catalog. Bergger makes a single grade paper which might be worth trying:
Bergger Prestige Fine Art Supreme (SSFA).

I haven't tried it, so I can't pronounce upon it. If someone else has, I would like to know what you think of it.

I have been shooting Rollei 400 IR and developing it with Pyrocat-HD in Glycol. I also am still burning through boxes of the older Maco IR 820c which I soup in XTOL. All shots are with an R72 filter which gives a very nice effect with these 2 films.
Have some rolls of the Konica 750 in 120 but have not had time to use it up yet!!

I still have a collection of Konica film in 120 and a few rolls of HIE in 35mm. I've been shooting the Konica in an old TLR with an R72 at EI1 and developing in Rodinal 1:75.

I've been having a certain amount of success with Rollei IR400 (in 135 and 120), developing in Rodinal 1+50. I have a few sheets in 4x5, but have yet to try it.

David Lingham said:

Wow, we've bumped a thread from 5 years ago! And yes I miss HIE, and have a few rolls of Maco 820 in the fridge.

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Actually almost 6 years. And the OP's are still with us
I have done some shooting on Superpan 200 souped in Finol the negs look great but having failed getting a darkroom up and running it wil be a while until they get printed.
Kind regards

I'm a fan of HIE, even though it was expensive and finicky, and Konica's old IR film, neither of which seem to be in production any longer :-(

I've been meaning to try the newer Efke/Maco stuff.

Still shooting Konica 750, but in my Sqai. Its a pia takng the filter off to focus and compose for every shot but ya do whaat ya gotta do.

Huge infrared street shooter...but all digital. Started with Kodak IR film back in the 70's and eventually moved to dig.

This certainly is an old thread! Back then I could still easily get Kodak IR. I've been shooting IR since the early 90's. Kodak 4x5, Efke, Rollei. Still have some Kodak and Efke but soon they'll be gone. Rollei is okay. Ilford SFX is okay but only up to 120... Once I have used up my reserves, and can no longer get Rollei, I'll do digital IR.

I used to play with digital with a cheap nikon digi, but the ir block is getting so good you cant get past it on anything remotely new. I have an old Phase One scan back that would work but no way to use it, software is way incompatible. Wish it wasnt so expensive for an infrared enabled digi camera.

I use Rollei IR400 and D-76 1+1. A bit grainy but with 120 format or 4x5, it's really good.

Norm

Yesterday I shot Rollei IR400 in my Kodak Retina IIIc, with the R72 filter. I quite like the results. Its not HIE (oh that halation!) but it makes a nice image.

paulbarden said:

Yesterday I shot Rollei IR400 in my Kodak Retina IIIc, with the R72 filter. I quite like the results. Its not HIE (oh that halation!) but it makes a nice image.

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Very nice, do you have a 29.5mm R72 filter, or a step up?