Re: Reducing contrast of EIR

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

On 14 Apr 98 at 11:49, Rolland Rainbow Elliott wrote:

> What's the best way to reduce the contrast of color infrared film (EIR) when
> using a #12 yellow filter and developing in E6 chemistry?  
> 
> I read an article once about duplicating slides and it talked about
> "flashing" the film inorder to reduce the contrast.  Could any one tell me
> how this is done?  I'd like to try this on EIR to see if it helps tame the
> contrast.  

I think this is better known as pre-flash, and the Multiblitz (likely 
Bogen in the USA) slide-duplicating stand offers this feature. Not 
sure how this is done safely with an ordinary flash....but I am 
pretty sure you will be testing on a different film than EIR....;-))
 
> I've read that AR-5 processing produces less contrasty slides, but I've heard
> its expensive, at around US $20 a roll.  At this price I'll probably stick to
> E6 which I can do myself for about $3 a roll.  Does anyone know of a cheap
> place to get AR-5 processing done?  

I think cheap and AR-5 are technically mutually exclusive, as the 
entire process screams CALIBRATION and SCIENTIFIC CONSISTENCY all 
over the place....8-))
This is also the background of the Kodak recommendation to darkload 
EIR (which has promptly been swallowed by all major magazines, 
without any testing....fools). 

One other thing I want to test one day is the effect of ND filters on 
EIR. ND, just as polaroid, is known to have little effect on infrared, 
hence the entire visible spectrum is surpressed, while the IR 
spectrum remains equally intensive. Not sure what it will do for 
contrast, but the red tones should be stronger, at the expense of all 
others....I think....:-))



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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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


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