IR books, graveyards & Konica IR film

[Cor Breukel <cor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First of all: It's nice to see the list starting so well & and "virtually"
meeting you all!

first: Joe B wrote:
<< Except that there was a book of IR pics of ghost-haunted
English ruins and such called "Phantoms of The Isles" (seriously spooky
stuff) and the same guy did another book or so, all shot on a 24mm lens
on a Nikkormat on Kodak IR B&W as I recall- I think his name was Simon
Marsden,>>

I have this book: "The Haunted Realm", Simon Marsden, 1986 (?), ISBN: 
0-525-24498-0. It's a book with more than 100 IR photographs of "haunted" 
castles, ruines, places, with their attached ghost stories. I find the
quality of the photogrphs variable: some are brilliant, but a lot are not
sharp, too much gray, "muddy" (maybe it's caused by the reproduction) 
looks like a lot of them were taken under an overcast sky. There are no
technical data. 

He also wrote:
<<"atmosphere was totally
stifling" (I wonder exactly what that means...) and he could hardly wait
to get out of there. As many seasoned infrared photographers know, the
ability to hang around graves in abandoned cemeteries is not always
something to take for granted! >>

I have taken quite a lot of (IR) photographs of cemetries around the
world, but never had an nervy experience (maybe once, this spring on a
cemetry in Cairo, but that was because a lot of poor people lived there,
not that they were hostile, it was mostly in my imagination that they
maybe would...), on the contrary these places are mostly tranquil,
peacefull.

On a quit different "entry"

I have done all my IR work thusfar with Kodak IR, a 25 red filter,
developping in my "all time favourite'' developer D76 1:1. I recently
bought a roll of Konica IR, just to try. Could sombody hint me to an ASA
speed, and how to develop with D76?

Thanks!


Cor Breukel 
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