Re: B&W Camera picks up IR??

[Luvdove6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/2/99 5:22:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
badamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> 
>  If it was a film camera, I guess the question is what kind of film was in 
it?
>  
>  I saw an old episode of an old TV show where they claim some of the 
evidence
>  was movie film taken by infrared.  To me it looked just like a negative
>  filmstrip (the shadows were light and the highlights dark). Fiddling with 
> the
>  truth is okay when it makes for a good plotline. I have also seen 
> commercials,
>  particularly car commercials, that have an infrared "look."  I always 
> assumed
>  normal film was digitally converted to have that look.
>  
>  This episode, the commercials and your question got me to try the Kodak
>  website for infrared motion picture info.  I couldn't find any (but the 
> Kodak
>  website can be hard to search because there is too much info).  However 
> since
>  35mm roll film was adapted from movie film, I guess it would be possible to
>  readapt a bulk roll of infrared for movie use.  It would be expensive and a
>  pain to handle and develop, I suspect, but if it's what the director wants 
. 
> .
>  .  Or perhaps the actual footage was shot with a digital camera to add
>  atmosphere to the footage supposedly shot by this other camera.  Another
>  liberty with the truth.  But haven't you noticed on TV and in movies that
>  photos taken with a character's inexpensive little camera look like a shot
>  actually taken with a Hasselblad and several strobes? ;-)
>  
>  Bertha

Well...  like I said, they called it a CP-16 film camera...  so its 16mm of 
some kind!?  And you know how the Blair Witch Project was all on home video 
type of equipment because they were kids with a LOW film budget so I'm 
assuming they didn't use all those expensive tricks  ;-)   The camera was 
really big I remember...  with a huge round lens...  that is about all I 
know!  I fell in love with the results though  ;-)  If no one knows what I'm 
talking about then maybe it was all effects!  Anyway thanks for the reply!
~Holly~
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