Kodak moment ? Have you ever worked with IR film ?
No, because I didn’t have a darkroom. I had developed pictures from negatives and it was a pain. Electronic photography and darkroom applications give you much better control over your pictures and creativity. Bad shots don’t cost you money and are easily deleted. The number of pictures you can take on an SD card if much larger than any roll of film. I have no desire to go backwards.
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Absolutely, and I had a darkroom. When digital cameras hit 3 Mpixels I switched to digital and never looked back. IR film was a bit of a pain to use, as heat could fog it. “Artistically” it always seemed like a gimmick to me, I had a friend who used it a lot, many years later, looking back at his old photos, most wished he’d used regular film to preserve those memories.
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I have an old Ricoh and a couple ranger finders and I still use them to take black and white. I probably shoot a roll a month and develop them. I use a slide scanner to convert the slides to images. I have a couple digital cameras, but I find myself reaching for the Ricoh when I feel creative.
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Like vinyl records, retro in most things is making a big comeback. But if B&W is your artistic photographic bent, I’d agree that silver halide film is a better image acquisition device than silicon sensors, primarily because of the “Bayer Filter” on top of the sensors to make them do color.
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I liked the color IR prints.
There was a surreal look to them .
I think grass was a red color.
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I believe any “color IR” displays or prints are a “mapping” of IR intensity to pseudo color. Thermal rifle scopes have a live mode to do this “increase contrast”.
I made lots of trippy, surreal color prints from normal slides by using long expired Cibachrome photo paper and chemicals. Not repeatable but a high percentage were “interesting”.
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