New subscriber to the list.

[Marcelo Goes Alves da Silva <mgsilva@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi IR-folks,

I am fairly new to photography (have been messing around with it only
for a couple of years) and have just now decided to setup my darkroom
and also to do some work in IR.

IR film is fairly difficult to find in Brazil, and if anyone has any
ideas on how to get it, I would be particularly pleased.

Here is my short bio:

- Name: Marcelo Silva

- Profession/Study: Medical Student.

- Country: Brazil, in South America.

- Personal history of photography:  I have always liked photography.  I
even remember the day my father gave me my first camera, a "Tekinha", a
legendary toy camera in Brazil.  I didn't start thinking of it as a
serious hobby, though, until about two years ago when I bought my first
SLR, a Zenit 122.  Cheap and totally manual controls were the 2 reasons
I bought this camera.  I like to control everything.

- preferred subjects: Photography, computers, brazilian music.

- materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry): I like Kodak.  IMHO
they're unbeatable.  I don't work for them, nor do my parents or any of
my relatives.  That's just an opinion, though.  I like Kodak's HSIR;
have never been able to get Ektachrome infrared here.  I have been using
a deep red filter for IR photography.  I don't know its number.  My
developer is d-76 at 18 degrees Celcius.

- format (35mm/medium format/large format): 35 mm.  Have been looking
into large format.

- Other strange hobbies: I like to play chess.

- How did you find out about this list:  Found a link to it in some
photo links page.

- Expand on anything photographic you like: I think Ansel Adams' zone
system is the way to go about photography.  As soon as we get a
practical photographic IR reflectance meter, we will be able to apply
this incredible system to IR photography.

Hope this does it.

Thanks folks.

Marcelo Silva
mgsilva@xxxxxxxxxx

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