{"id":3837,"date":"2024-08-04T18:54:41+00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:54:41+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2024-08-04T18:59:44+00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T18:59:44+00:00","slug":"the-bad-the-ugly-and-my-roll-of-kodak-hie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-bad-the-ugly-and-my-roll-of-kodak-hie\/","title":{"rendered":"The bad, the ugly and my roll of Kodak HIE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kodak High-speed Infrared film, also known as HIE, is a black-and-white film with extended sensitivity in the infrared zone. It was discontinued in 2007, and all that’s available for the last decade has expired a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The problem with the expired infrared film is it goes bad quickly, and often it goes bad <\/em>bad even when it is well cared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was given a bag of some old, iffy cameras, and in the bag, there were a few rolls of film – Kodak HIE. I got very excited, but then I realized that the bag sat in a friend’s car for at least a week in high temperatures. A week shouldn’t destroy a film, but it certainly can’t help, and it probably wasn’t stored significantly better before that. That was a few years ago, and the film has sat in my fridge ever since, but the damage was already done well before. Also, I got it in a bare plastic canister, with an unknown expiry date. So, a Hail Mary roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, I’ve shot the roll. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shot it in a Nikon FE camera with a Tamron Adaptall-2 24mm F2.5 lens and a random 720nm IR filter, on a nice, sunny day in April in Maksimir Park in Zagreb. I rated it at 50 ASA and developed it in Adox FX-39 II, 1+14 dilution for 10:30 at 19.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results are… interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It degraded significantly. Like, dramatically. Thankfully, there’s still some of the landscape recognizable, so at least I haven’t wasted my time. With some dodging and burning, I even managed to get these somewhat presentable photos. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interesting, huh? \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camera<\/td>Nikon FE \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Lens<\/td>Tamron Adaptall-2 01BB 24mm F2.5 BBAR MC \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Filter<\/td>Green.L IR 720nm; \u230055mm<\/td><\/tr>
Film<\/td>Kodak HIE<\/td><\/tr>
Developer<\/td>Adox FX-39 II; 1+14 dilution at 19.5\u00b0C \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Scanner<\/td>Plustek OpticFilm 8100 \ud83d\udd17<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kodak High-speed Infrared film, also known as HIE, is a black-and-white film with extended sensitivity in the infrared zone. It was discontinued in 2007, and all that’s available for the last decade has expired a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"venue_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,18,289],"tags":[16,21,526,528,524],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-gallery","category-photos","category-shooting-film","tag-black-and-white-film","tag-film-photography","tag-infrared-film","tag-infrared-photography","tag-kodak-hie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scan-240425-0005-esr.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}