Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Aitken"
<chris@i...> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks. I'll mention it at the next IR class I teach...