Kodak HSIE

[Andrew O'Neill]

Jody, have you used it yet? I'd love to see your results.

[EdSawyer]

laser-based imagesetters can have a few different types of lasers, some are infrared lasers (780-820nm range), the film would have been used in one of these. Others used visible red lasers (680nm) or HeNe lasers (480nm), so not all used infrared lasers. Infrared imagesetter film is still made (Agfa, among others). It's really designed for half-tone/graphic arts type reproduction - it's not really meant for continuous-tone negs, my guess is the contrast is rather high on this type of film.

-Ed

[Jody_S]

Jody, have you used it yet? I'd love to see your results.

Yes I've used a bit, I was able to find a processing sweet spot that gave me reasonable tonal range, but it is still a very high contrast film. It is, however, extremely fine grain and capable of much better resolution than any traditional film I've used. I stopped using it a while back when I switched to X-ray, which is less trouble to load, develop, and scan. I would have to go back through my archives to find some examples, but I know I've posted a few here.