Response to shooting infrared film indoors

i've used HIE indoors with good results, as have some other photographers i know.

use BARE incandescent lightbulbs as your lightsource--lamps with the shades removed, some of those clamp-on worklights you can get at home despot, etc. they put out a lot of infrared. also, strobes allegedly put out a lot of infrared, but i've never tried them. i've heard you can actually use strobes with infrared filters over them, so you won't have a huge flash of light with every shot, thus preventing the film from recording visible light.

rate it at 200 iso with no filtration. rate it at 50 iso if you using a red-25 filter. you'll have to have a heck of a lot of light, if you're going to rate at 50, though, so i'd go without a filter.

doing this you'll get a really soft, grainy image with nice, even skin tones. i don't know what you'll get if you're not shooting people.

good luck.

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