Re: Infrared-Digest V #890

["James Bielecki" <bieleckj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>The figure of 200,000 rolls of Kodachrome got me to thinking. I >>wonder what the sales volume for the new E-6 Ektachrome >>Infrared is. It is such a specialized film and at $18 a pop the >>sales have got to be slim. I'm sure Kodak spent a bundle on >>research and development. I've been tempted to try it, but it is >>not a film that many would use on a regular basis unless for >>scientific research. Same goes for Chemiluminescent film. Do >>the sales volume justify keeping them or is there a group of
>> people demanding them? Check out www.kodak.com and you >>will see many products which would account for less than .1% >>in total sales.RDS

>I believe that the military and also companies that do aerial >remote sensing (such as mapping, crop surveys, mineral >prospecting, etc) use a lot of colour infrared film.

The current 35mm color IR is a spinoff from the 70mm and 9" stuff that was originally developed for the military and scientific community.  We were using the 70mm version a good six months before it became available in 35mm.



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