Ran my 1st roll of Maco IR820c last weekend and ended up with thin negatives (thin by my standards anyway) One negative was somewhat closer to my comfort zone (all other negs were consistant density) and that was one I'd put my camera on 1/2 sec exposure rather than the 2secs I intended, so I added an extra 2secs to that frame (camera was on tripod and I figured more exposure was better than less!) maybe I just metered this scene a whole lot better than the others! Always a possibility!(posted 8234 days ago)The packaging of the film states 100asa so I figured that that was a good place to start. I only have an orange filter for my Mamiya 645 lenses so I used that and set my meter to 25asa. Mostly metered shadows and decreased exposure by two stops. Processed the film in Rodinal 1:100 for 20mins @ 20C. Looking at the negs, there is some detail in the shadow's of some frames but I can see frames where I have no shadow detail. The next roll I use I will do a bit of testing, rather than wandering around snapping things, however I'm going to add at least another stop of exposure. (this stuff is getting slow!)
Other observations:
I loaded it in the shade of a large tree during the middle of the day (bright sunny one at that). I can't see an sign of fogging other than some edge fog that I can get on any 120 roll film. The frame markings are somewhat fuzzy... is that normal?
Orange filter not strong enough to get any IR effects. I haven't printed any frames, but the couple I've scanned didn't show much, some plants and skys look IR like but I'm not putting much faith in the scanned version cause I had to tweak the scanner so much to get any image from the very thin negs. A new filter will be under the Xmas tree I feel.. good guy that Santa!
The Maco website only lists two developers (the Massive Development Chart has a couple more - I didn't check Ed's site to see if there's any suggestions there), pity they couldn't spend a little time offering a few other suggestions! What's everyone using?
Anyone got anything to say about this stuff? Own experienses, suggestions...