Re: darkroom -Reply -Reply

[Scott Donkin <photos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:39 PM 21/10/96 +0100, you wrote:

>Has anyone tried any HIE indoors with flash?  Results ??

Flash units pump out a fair bit of IR light, so using your flash with HIE
will work fine.  As a starting point, try, say, 100 ISO, and go from there.

As a side interest, assuming you are using a little hot-show flash... buy
yourself an Wratten 89B gel filter (opaque), and put it over the window of
the flash unit (you may need to cut it up to cover all the window).  Then
turn off all the lights and take some pics.  You wont see the flash go off,
but the film will.  Note that you'll have to operate your flash on 'manual'
- ie, work out flash to subject distances, because the auto feature of any
flash unit wont work when used in the way I've described.

Oh... before you go out and buy an 89B gel filter... try developed but
unexposed tranny film.  According to a few folk, tranny film in this state
(ie, black) passes very little visible light, but lots of IR... ideal for
the "flash in the dark" stuff.

Anyone tried these makeshift filters??


Cya...

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