Pinholio strikes again!!

["Eugenie Beuman" <elbeuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,
    I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet. I have a box of HSI
(sheet film) that is riddled with pinholes. My processing method uses D-76
and a water stop. The film was purchased from Vistek in Toronto, Canada last
fall, though at the moment I am living in The Netherlands. I have the box
and the emulsion number too. Does anyone have any advice as whether or not I
would have any luck in asking Kodak for help- possibly a replacement box?? I
shoot a fair amount of this film, but I have to shoot almost 3 times the
normal amount so that I can salvage a negative that has the least amount of
pinholes, very much the lesser of 2 evils.  I figure that with all of the
film I have shot in the past and all of the pinholes I have put up with,
that a replacement box wouldn't be too far out of line or beyond
reasonability.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks a bunch,
    Clark
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Aan: infrared@xxxxx <infrared@xxxxx>
Datum: maandag 2 augustus 1999 20:30
Onderwerp: Re: IR FAQ and pinholes (suggestion)



>> >The pinholes I find in almost all my 4x5 HSI (even in the film sent to
me by
>> >Kodak) are created in the emulsion coating process by minute particles
in
>> >the anti-halation layer migrating into the image forming layer. This
>> >explanation was offered to me by Steve Hedges at Kodak in a conversation
on
>> >8/10/98. I have since spoken with and written to Dick Johnson,  Kodak
Dept
>> >MTS, about the problem. In November '98, I sent Johnson a packet of
Email
>> >messages and posts from this group with complaints about pinholes. He
>> >eventually told me he hoped Kodak would solve the problem "by the end of
the
>> >year" ('99).
>> >

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