HIE & #87

[bcasselb@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bill D. Casselberry)]

  Hello all,

	Well, I have finally come across a #87 filter out here
	in the coastal hinterlands of Oregon, USA. I must say that
	it provides for rather different effects than the #25 I
	have been using before now. I used my Canonet QL17 so as
	to eliminate the need to keep switching the filter off and
	on. Nice little rangefinder w/ excellent 40mm optics. 

	I shot it "by the data sheet" f16 @1/30th & 1/15th w/ an
	occassional wider spread. The suggested exposures seemed
	the best ones. I used a suggested develop routine (George
	Smyth, I believe) of ~8min in D-76 1:1  The negs were
	very distinct, though rather faint ; perhaps a bit more 
	time next roll. Nevertheless, the lower density negs print
	much faster on my rudimentary darkroom equipment at the
	8x - 11x sizes I like. Almost too fast at 5x -- ~3sec. Of
	course, this is due to my lack of the correct lensboard
	for using a 50mm lens w/ my old Durst M601 and the consequent
	need to compromise the lens aperture towards being able to
	see the image well enuf to focus. I have run off a few
	frames so far & will try to get some new IR material up
	to my page w/in the coming few days.

	I also ran off the roll of EIR from the fridge a while 
	back w/ the #15 deep yellow. I must say I was very un-
	impressed w/ the results -- all but a few were just 
	excessive red toned images w/ no other colors. I had bracketed 
	in 1/2stops over about 3 stops around an IE of 200. One or
	two attempted to get a bit of purple in them. This effect
	occurred in only one setting of the brackets and even it 
	lacked any visual impact. All in all ; I doubt I'll do much
	further experimentation w/ this expensive film. Of course, 
	the lab may well have botched the processing, as the 
	"decent" ones were at the very end of the roll. They did 
	assure me that they were capable of running the EIR, but it
	seems to me that the overbearing red may well have been the
	result of them "blowing out" the IR layer of the film thru
	improper handling.
						Bill

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