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<p>I only just became aware of this film. At first glance the contrast reminds me of old Kodak TXP 320 film, which was quite a different and low contrast animal than regular Kodak Tri-X. Mr. Vonk I followed your link to the extensive testing you did with this film. Thank you! I see it's available from Germany in 9 x 12 Centimeter format? I would like to shoot some in my 1932 Kodak Recomar 33. Where did you purchase it from?</p>

<p>I would not say it's over...but like nearly ALL film it's difficuly to locate and expensive when you do find it. Kodak HIE was the champion of IR photography and when they killed it I pretty much stopped buying Kodak film. I did stock up my deep freeze and shoot it occasionally. I did a roll this summer and it was fine. They only thing that ruined it was the dodgy advance on an old Kiev 4M cameara. That one got junked after screwing up a precious roll of HIE. Still I did salvage a few frames.... HIE was and still is Magic. I also have a Nikon D1x that I modified for IR. It's OK but digital IR is simply NOT the same as HIE or Konica. It's a bland generic image even with heavy filtration. <img src=" alt="" /></p><div></div>

Recently I've acquired a small collection of Kiev 4 rangefinder cameras. It all started with the one on the right, a late model Kiev 4M. It came with the excellent Helios 53mm lens. The Kiev4AM (?) on the right came with the 35mm Jupiter 12 wide angle lens, and the most recent older Kiev 4M has the older Jupiter 8 50mm lens. But I've ran into some problems trying to swap lenses back and forth. The Jupiter 8 50mm mounts on all of the bodies easily. The Helios 53mm will only mount on the later Kiev 4AM and Kiev4M, not on the older Kiev metered body. The Jupiter 12 wide angle will not mount on the older camera in the center; the lock never seems to engage. The same wide angle mounts fine on the later Kiev 4M, but seems to slide around when focused.... If your head is spinning so is mine! My question is if this is typical FSU "standardization" or am I doing something wrong when mounting the lenses? And the auxiliary finder only fits the non Hotshoe camera. If I use it on the later cameras I have to shim up the Hotshoe so it won't slide off. Why do I keep doing this? The optics are fantastic!<div></div>