Digital BW, The Print

OK,   I think the problem may have been with my e-mail  to SilverOxide 
getting caught up in the spam bin there.. Like my own e-mail I'm sure 
they get a ton of it and spam filters are, well,  less than reliable. 
Back about the last time I e-mailed them I lost a lot of my own incoming 
e-mail... Now, I got an answer, within about 12 hours of the e-mail.. 
So, I'd say their customer service is likely to be pretty good - 12 hour 
response on a weekend..

To start with, SilverOxide is at: http://www.silveroxide.com/

I HAVE heard great things about some of their  specific 
film-oriented/film-mimicking plug-ins, and that's why I had wanted to 
see if their IR plugin was worth a try... I had first heard about the 
plug-ins on this list perhaps a year or more back when people were 
talking about good results converting Color to B&W.   But with IR, as 
with any plugin that attempts to do something as extreme as this 
(guesstimating IR from visible light reflections) there are some 
limitations, the most important seemingly being to choose a scene 
without buildings, etc..

I'll give you an initial review of the IR this week (since I've got a 
blown ankle anyway, with time to kill) and will post a link when the 
full review is up..  (I'm also interested in how the TriX conversion 
compares to The Imaging Factory's "Convert to B&W Pro's" built in TriX 
option., as I've been playing with using the plugin to  convert digital 
images to a Tri-X film curve, followed by using VIsual Infinity's "Grain 
Surgery" to add a Tri X grain effect...)  After I get finished writing 
the pieces for  the other two products I am reviewing,  I'll have a more 
comprehensive review of the SilverOxide line and the SilverIR product in 
particular.

I should note for those of you wedded to a 16 bit B&W workflow, that 
Silver Oxide has 16 bit versions of  it's filters!

Keith


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Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote:

> Silver Oxide has a Silver IR filter that looks pretty good...
>
> But, they have never answered a single e-mail from me about their 
> products..


 

 

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