Re: IR film & X-Rays ?

[Cor Breukel <cor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Zoe Paddy Johnson CIRT CSOS wrote:

> 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
> 
.sorry for the previos message but my connection from Berlin is realy
terrible. To answer your question: I realy don't know if this film is
sensitive to UV but the biggest problem for you would be to obtain thsi
film. I got it through the lab I work at, also I am not sure if it gives
continues grayscale neg,s, I have yet to find this out

Cor Breukel 
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
"The Infrared Gallery"
http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/ir-gallery.html




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