RE: KODAK 4x5 IR film discontinued?

["Stan Patz" <skp113@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Don't forget to mention that Kodak has decided to make *HIE*
>available in 4x5"....with the difference between HSI being that HIE
>is an thin aerial emulsion, less easy to load and to keep flat, but I
>vaguely recall also less vulnerable to finger prints....

To WJ and the group,

I have written to Dick Johnson at Kodak (I don't have an Email address) for 
some statement on whether HSI is discontinued. He had told me it would NOT 
be cut.

Concerning the unlabled 4x5 IR film he sent me to test, it showed no pinhole 
or emulsion artifacts and was no more sensitive to finger- printing than any 
other BW film. It was on a terribly thin rollfilm base that was a nightmare 
to handle. But the images on the film were clean and beautiful.

If Johnson ever gets back to me, I will share his remarks on old and "new" 
IR emulsions.

Stan Patz   NYC
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