Re: availability of HIE

[eml@xxxxxxxxx]

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> At 07:09 PM 01/11/96 +0000, you wrote:
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> >I strongly suspect that this is norrmal.  Konica has made their IR750 since
> >at least the late 1950's (Unlike Kodak, they improve it periodically!) for
> 
> Run this by me again... Konica has made IR film for that long???
> 
> Well... that is my lesson for today!  8-)
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> 
> Cya...
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> ..due to the current economic situation, the light at the end of the tunnel
> has been turned off until further notice.
> 

See! Someone out there IS awake after all! ;->>

To find the book would require an archaeological excavation deeper than
I can make tonight, but I have a copy of a pamphlet by a japanese
photochemical trade group which lists, among Konishiroku's products,
Konica IR750.  It was available then in 35mm cassettes and bulk and
in 120 rolls!

My God!  I just found it!  The publication is called "Photographic
Sensitized Materialsd of Japan"  It was published for the Ministry
of International Trade and Industry by the Japan Chemical Exporter's
Association.  On Page 59, under Konishiroku, it says:

Film: 

Sakura Infra-red  750u (micron)  Size: 120, 135

Further down it says:

Dry Plate:

Sakura Infra-red


The only date in it is in a review of the japanese motion picture 
film business in 1958.  I would guess by the photography in it
that the book dates from noit later than 1960.  That makes Konica
IR750 not less than 36 years old, and probably older, as it is 
not mentioned as a new product or technology in a book devoted to 
just that.


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