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With Hie film auto or manual load? I am going to start experimenting with HIE film. I was told the camera must be a manual load, not automatic. Is this true?
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Jon Close |
Best place to start is with Kodak's Tech. Publication F-13 on their high speed infrared film. The camera does not necessarily need to be manual loading. There are autoloading/advancing cameras that are perfectly compatible with infrared film. But many autoloading SLRs, such as Canon's Rebel and Elan series (Some Nikons, Minoltas, Pentaxes too I think) have a frame advance/counting system that uses an infrared emitter to count the sprocket holes. The emitter has no effect on daylight or tungsten balanced film, but will fog the edge and some of the image frame of infrared film. Usually, if a camera has such a system it will state in the user manual that infrared film cannot/should not be used. See http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-ir/ for more specific information about using infrared film with EOS cameras, and http://photonotes.org/articles/ir-myths/ for more general infrared info.
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