RE: KODAK 4x5 IR film discontinued?

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 22 Jan 00 at 18:10, Stan Patz wrote:

> 
> >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.

You mean he only confirmed the end of HSI, with no decision on 4x5" 
HIE yet?
 
> 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.

What 'mission' or purpose did this pack of film have?
Just a compensation for a bad batch of HSI, or indeed a consumer test?
 
> If Johnson ever gets back to me, I will share his remarks on old and "new" 
> IR emulsions.

Please do....no testing without feedback....:-))






 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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