Re: Contamination by Infrared radiation

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 10 Nov 97 at 20:14, Joe Berenbaum wrote:

> At 10:44 10/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >> "Any film fixer will do, but I prefer Kodak's Rapid Fix. Once you use the
> >> fixer, store it in a seperate jug labeled "IR Fix." This way, you won't
> >> contaminate your other films with infrared radiation."
> >
> >This is obviously wrong. Why? Because the non-IR films are
> >not sensitive to infrared radiation ;-)    ;-)     ;-)
> >
> >Dave Horn	;-)
> 
> And even if they were sensitive to it, by the time they're in the fixer it's
> too late for then to be "contaminated" by it anyway. The author of that
> amazing recommendation should be sent a certificate of infrared photography
> misinformation providorship- it could look quite good framed, hanging on a
> wall, from a distance. Still, maybe she was suffering from the Wood effect
> at the time...

I suggest creating the "Infrared Photography Hall of Shame"....:-))

The fact that I have just been awarded with the "Lens Hacker Hall of 
Fame Award" is not coincidental....;-))
See:

http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronhacker.html

for more details of this honorable award.

 

- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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