Digital BW, The Print

> The big problem is that most of the "IR look" that we all 
> know and love from our film days has nothing to do with the 
> IR itself. It has to do with the lack of an anti-halation 
> layer on Kodak HIR. This pretty much doubled the film's 
> sensitivity, but also gave it the "glow" that people came to 
> associate with IR photography. And the grain. So the "IR 
> look" isn't just white foliage and dark skies, it's grainy, 
> glowing foliage.

I recently shot a roll of Maco IR820c, an 100 speed IR film. They also do a
version called Aura, which comes without the antihalation backing. So you
have your choice.


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