Re: availability of HIE

[Scott Donkin <photos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:10 AM 08/11/96 +0000, you wrote:

>> Run this by me again... Konica has made IR film for that long???

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

Ahh, no.  I never said I was awake... 8-)

>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

>My God!  I just found it!  

So what tools did you use to find it?

>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.

Un believable!  I AM impressed!  8-)

In fact, I cannot understand how a film with such LOW sensitivity of IR
(compared to Kodak's HIE) has survivied.  Particularly when you consider
that 4x5 was still VERY popular in those kays, and that Kodak's is soooo nice.



Cya...

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