Re: EIR

["Rolland Elliott" <rolland_elliott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa!! Hold on a second!

Don't get too confident about loading EIR in the light. Bright Sunlight will 
Deffinetely fog this film, but usually only the first 4 or 5 frames instead 
of the first 12 like Kodak's B&W version. The fogging will look like very 
faint red lines running the width, not the length of your slide. If you 
shoot a scene that appears very red (reflects a lot of IR light) like a 
landscape, you might not even notice this fogging.

In addition If you push color infrared film one or more stops you should 
deffinetely load and unload it in darkness. For one stop push rate is at 320 
and bracket, for two stop push rate it at 640 and bracket. I shot a Indian 
Pow Wow a few years ago, inside a gym and pushed the film two stops. I 
didn't even think the dim mercury vapor lights had much IR light out put, 
but my first 4 or 5 frames were fogged due to my carlessness.

That being said subdued light loading is fine for 99.9% of the time because 
hardly anyone uses this film and those that do never push it. That's a shame 
because this film pushes much better than the old E4 version does.

Peace Rolland
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