Anyone Tried Technidol with Kodak or Konica Infrared Film

[gene_crumpler18]

I recently looked through the archives of the Infrared Mailing list and picked up an idea to use with IR films. One can perhaps reduce the grain of 35mm HIE by underexposing by at least a stop and then lowering the resulting contrast by developimg in Techidol. Anyone have any experience to share?

[scott walton]

Gene, I would save your money (and frustrations) and use POTA or

Divided D76. Technidol is twichy at best with other films let alone the

cost of it... I have done alot with DD76 and have gotten GREAT results.

Email me if you want me to send you a picture.

Cheers,

Scott

[gene_crumpler18]

Scott:

 

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I've used tech pan for nearly all of my 35mm work in the last 10

years, so I'm familiar with all of the developer tricks to reduce

contrast. I was really asking whether anyone had seen an improvement

(lower contrast) in IR films that would allow reduced density (less

grainess in 11x14's)and still retain detail in the shadows.

 

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I'm going to shoot some test shots with HIE and try my own personal TP

developing trick, and was wondering if anyone had tried this.

[j._o.]

Scott Eaton on photo.net reported excellent results using Technidol

on HIE, and posted a few intriguing sample images. I'm sure you

could look up his email address there and find out directly from him.

I'm not sure about the low-grain possibilties, but the contrast on

his sample images looked very low for HIE.

[gene_crumpler18]

To follow up;

 

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Scott is developing 35mm HIE in technidol for 16 minutes at 70. He

uses a TTL meter setting of 300 and takes exposure readings off a grey

card. His images look pretty low contrast for HIE. Hope this idea

works on 120 MACO which is NOW available on B&H's web site! Konica 750

is just too high contrasted and nonhalated(new word?)for me.

[jason_tuck]

Just treat the HIE kodak stuff like Tmax 100 using TMAX developer, it

seems to reduce the grain...