I'd like to think I can still get something out of it as an infrared film with that "lunar effect", as I believe it's called. Black skies, white foliage, dark wood, etc.
Thanks. Yeah, that's it. Wood effect. That's a start. I've got a good working camera now, and this old film to play with. And just throwing the film in the garbage because it's old and outdated by 200 years seems a pity.I believe you mean "Wood" effect, named after Robert W. Wood.
I hope I'm not hogging the "new posts" board, but have always wondered why the old Kodak High Speed Infrared was so muh better as an infrared film than any of the choices available since then. Back then, the Kodak film with a simple 25A filter outperformed any of the latter day film choices, even with opaque dilters such as R72. You would think that certainly all these years later that the other manufacturers would have figured out the film chemistry involved. Although I remember the blooming of the old Kodak, from any overexposure. Maybe that's why the other manufacturers reduced the IR sensitivity, possibly to reduce the piping of the film base? Back then you could do infrared on a summer day hand held wit only a 25A red filter. Now, it takes the R72 and a tripod, and a prayer the wind isn't blowing enough to move the camera.
The old Kodak stuff had important military and industrial uses - in particular military uses.
But its manufacture was challenging, because all the quality control techniques that depended on infra-red viewing equipment were unusable with it.
Its sensitivity to IR meant that it could only be manufactured economically as long as there was extremely large orders for it coming from large purchasers - like the military.
The stuff we saw was just a tiny blip of leftover film that remained after those orders were filled.
Once those orders dried up due to the military and others moving to non-film based technologies, continued availability for us could not continue.
Being retired now and playing with my hobbies, I think back to the things lost since my young years that I could neither afford the money for or the time, beause of having to work to pay bills. Those things have long disappeared from the market. Now I can only imagine what I could do now with a bunch of HIE film and printing-out paper to print my pictures on. S'not fair.There will never be anything like HIE again...sadly.
Probably because the Efke IR should have been exposed at EI .75, not 3. The R72 has a factor of 32X.
Now we're getting somewhere. But does that mean to set the luna-pro at ASA .8 (which is the lowest on the dial), and then meter through the R72 filter? Or does that film speed of .75 already take the filter into account? Experimenting with my filter and my Luna-Pro last night I discovered it will still actually give a usable reading on the low scale if you point the meter at a light bulb with the filter over it. So I would imagine a bright summer day would also give a usable reading through the filter. The main question I ask is in bold. Thank you.
Thank you. I've got 2 of these 120 rolls, like 2 bullets left in a firefight. I want to make them count when the leaves start coming out soon, full of chlorophyll for Wood effect. Now I need to come up with a developing time for D-23 straight. Planning and prep is the key to fighting failure.
I would love to play with actually IR sensitive stuff someday, playing with Aviphot and Tasma is fun but from what I’ve seen, nothing beats the true 900nm sensitive stuff.
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