Re: Dealing with reloading in daylight

[Chris Gibbs <cpgibbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Davidhazy wrote,

> I have had initial success by adding a length of fogged and processed B&W film
> to the HIE film (ala leader attached to Kodak infrared film many moons ago) and 
> loading the film as any other film - in broad daylight.
> 
> Final results of this experiment will be in shortly but it promises to be a way
> for enterprising IR photographers to reload without use of bags, etc. Just need
> to do a bit of pre-field photography preparation.

A great lateral thought!  Something to do with all that outdated
"way-outdated" B&W 35mm film.

I'd imagine you are making small (say 9 inch) pre-fogged & processed
leaders, just long enough to hit the take-up spool?  Are you then
chopping the same lengh of film off the IR film in the darkroom and
taping the new & improved leader onto the IR roll.....?  Sounds like a
perfect solution!?!

Question:  With the anti-halation backing on regular film, do we really
nead to pre-process the new leaders (lightproof leaders)?  Why not just
chop the leader off the IR in the dark, then use it as a template to cut
a new leader from regular film (of same length...with same cut angle)
and simply tape it in place on the IR film in the darkroom!

Cheers,

Chris
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