[pure-silver] films again and infrared

Thanks for all your help on agfa. I was quite concerned because I deleted all mention of film and paper, and to have to add it back in would take tons of typing!

So I've been going through the B and H website and noticed, as one of you said, that Maco is going with the name "Rollei" and that the Maco infrared film is now called Rollei 820c--at least they kept the designation of 820c! I love this film for infrared, so at least they are still supplying that niche market, and in 4x5 sheets also.

I don't see Konica infrared anywhere; back several years ago I know that Konica was manufacturing their infrared film once a year in january or february, and so there would always be rumors of its demise and then it would pop up again around that time. However I don't see it anywhere even on the B and H website so I assume it is over? Man am I out of date.

BTW yesterday I did the dumbest thing ever. You know how you can use a 25A filter on panchromatic film and get black skies? I needed to do that for a particular reason, and I have loved the 89B infrared filter with Maco and decided to try that with pan film, too. Now I KNOW everyone on this list right now is going "oh yeahhh, she's a dummy...."

Well let me tell you, even with 4 stops compensation, shooting HP5 at 25 ISO, panchromatic film has NO sensitivity above 700nm. I should have realized that when the name of the filter is "89B Opaque"! Hello! And I'm not even blonde!

I might as well have shot with my lens cap on the whole time!  2 120 rolls.

But heck, for infrared film it is wonderful...it only allows light in 700nm and above.

At least I learn from my mistakes and never do them twice....and am willing to be honest about them :)

Well, back out in the field today to shoot with the 25A...
Chris 


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