New IR film from Freestyle / Efke

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks for this info. I used Rollei IR 4x5 and didn't really like it...but that was only because I was comparing it to Kodak's 4x5 IR. At $100 Canadian for a box of 25, I don't think so. I imagine Efke's will be costly...I'll wait and see when Freestyle gets it in.

[Scott Rosenberg]

freestyle will have 25 sheet boxes for $40 in two weeks... i loved the maco 820c, so this is fantastic news!

[Robert Hall]

Robert do you have a direct link to your example print, i could not find issue 2 let alone the article.

I am surprised the film is that fast! I was getting fair results with Konica's 750, with a 120 roll back, before i lost my 89b filter down a cliff. I was only using an ASA of 6 in late spring/full sun with not too bad wood effect.

Thanks,

Sorry for the late reply Dan,

Here is a 1220 image from the Maco IR. 30 second exposure at f/64 (palladium/platinum print)

http://www.roberthall.com/new/pages/irbodie.htm

And here is an 8x10 at the same exposure. (on Azo)

http://www.roberthall.com/new/pages/cajon1.htm

[Patrik Roseen]

I have produced an infrared guide on my site: www.photo-artiste.com/infraredguide.html. This guide will be updated with descriptions of current films and with images added for illustration.

Al, I have read your IR-guideline and again I am both grateful and impressed. So much information in one place and so well structured! Thank you!

[Kirk Gittings]

One more example of Freestyle's commitment to LF. Not only do they import existing products, but they work directly with foreign manufacturers to expand their product line and develop new ones.

[Gene McCluney]

Agfa also produced a nice IR coating? It would be nice if one of the film makers would pick up the rights to it.

Agfa/Gevart STILL makes it as an aerial film. That is what Maco is having cut and spooled to fit consumer cameras now. It was only Agfa/Germany that stopped film production and went belly-up.

[j.e.simmons]

Has anybody tried this IR film with an IR flash to take photos at night as Weegee did?
juan

[Marco Annaratone]

I have taken in the past year a number of macros with my Rebel XT permanently modified for IR photography because I discovered that the Canon ring flash I was using was very generous in terms of emitting light well inside the near-IR range.

I do not know whether this means that all modern flashes emit wideband radiation or this is a characteristic of the specific flash I am using, but I was somewhat surprised by this. Maybe the expectation that flashes shoot 'bluish light' and therefore no-way-their-light-will-also-have-such-a-strong-near-IR-component was at the root of this wrong idea of mine.

It would certainly be interesting to see some flash photography using one of the films we have discussed thus far.

Cheers!

[Brian C. Miller]

What Weegee did was place a filter over the flash, and not the lens. When this is done, care must be exercised to make sure the flash doesn't overheat.

[PMahoney]

Has anyone had a chance to shoot and test the new film yet? I'm curiously awaiting peoples opinions, but having never shot IR film before, cannot reliably test and provide an opinion myself. I'm certainly looking forward to nice, affordable IR film available in sheets.

Thanks,
Peter