Using Internegative film (Fuji IT-N)

[Wishy]

Hi All,

The local camera fair had a bulk roll of Fuji IT-N for £3. I couldn't resist.

Any suggestions on the approximate ISO for this film (I believe its around 6, I think i might need a tripod...) and any suggested uses?

Steve

 

[Mark Antony]

It is indeed around 6 ISO. Not sure but I used to use it to make inter-negs with my enlarger so I'm guessing it's tungsten and low contrast.
Mark

 

[PHOTOTONE]

This film is intended for producing full tonal range color negatives from color slides or transparencies. It would normally be considered too "flat" for regular photography.

 

[analogfotog]

Fuji Internegative

This film is not intended for general photography. It is designed for making high quality internegatives from transparancies with exposure to tungsten illumination. You can also use it for copying reflection prints.

You MUST balance it to get proper results. This requires making exposures of a 21-step tablet, plotting it on the appropriate graph paper or using the "density difference" method.

Until a job change some ten years ago, I was employed by a large professional/commericial photographic laboratory. I made, on average, 1000 internegatives a year for six years, from a whole range of original transparancies, and flat copy. Most were made on Kodak Vericolor Internegative film, Types 4112 and 4114. We bought some Fuji Internegative film, for comparison purposes, and I thought that it was a superior product. Much better colour reproduction, compared to the Kodak products, easier to balance, and fewer new emulsion batch rebalancing problems. But, management wouldn't buy it, so we continued with the Vericolor Internegative.

That film is going to be more than a few years old, and you most probably won't be able to get any more. I don't know about Fuji, but Kodak has ceased production of their product. I mean, who needs internegs when you can scan a transparancy, right? If you shoot this stuff without a proper balancing, you will run into all kinds of contrast issues. For example, it is possible to make a negative which has contrast in one layer which is much too high, and another, too low. This was the dreaded "cross curves" syndrome (SHUDDER!), an constant problem in internegative making, which led to missed coffee breaks and lunches, angry customers, and, occasionally, leaving the manager's office with a impression of his size-12 shoes on my backside!

If you are looking for wild, unpredictable results, this might be the film for you. But, without balancing, it is all too easy to produce a negative which cannot be colour balanced.

Scared yet? Drop me a PM for more, real life, True Internegative Horror Stories!!