Re: Reducing contrast of EIR

["Thomas H. Hogan" <flzhgn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Rolland,

I think if you pulled the development by about 1/3 stop by 
cutting down the development time by the appropriate amount.
There must be a gamma chart for Kodak EIR in E6 so you might
be able to determine the number of seconds to pull from it.

Pre-flashing might work but you'll have to register mark the
film and some point in the camera. You might have to look at
it to get it lined up exactly--maybe you could notch the film
leader with scissors and do it by feeling the edge of the film
rail or something.  Flash each frame at six stops under exposure
with the lens completely defocussed on a 18% gray card.
When you've pre-flashed the number of exposures that you want
rewind the film with the leader hanging out of the cassette.

Let me know how it works out!

Hank Hogan <flzhgn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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'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?
> 
> Keep shooting,
> Rolland Elliott
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