Re: IR film & X-Rays ?

[Zoe Paddy Johnson CIRT CSOS <pjohnso@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Cor Breukel wrote:
> Making an X-ray image is not easy!  You need an intensifier screen
> ..well that depends, if you work with radioactivity, which I have to do
> in my job as medical researcher, exposure can be short and easy  (no I do
> not expose myself, keep weel shielded away from that stuff) > or an
> extremely long exposure and high activity developers. > 
> 
> .we use D19
> on another note I discovered taht Xray film is quite fast (1600ASA) when
> used to record visible light, when I used it in my pin hole camera, but
> that's another subject for another forum (No WJ, I can see you think, but
> Xray film is not senstive for red and beyond, you can process the giant
> (20*40 cm neg. by red darkroom light)..
> Cor Breukel 

Is the ASA 1600 film sensitive to UV?  My son is looking for some fast 
film to do UV photography with for his science fair project on UV 
markings on birds.  He'd like to be able to take pictures of something 
that moves faster than a feather taped to a piece of cardboard.
zoej

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