Re: Kodak to discontinue HSI?

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 18 Nov 99 at 12:56, Clive Warren wrote:

> At 1:14 pm +0100 17/11/99, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 
> >On 16 Nov 99 at 10:03, Clive Warren wrote:
> >
> >> Still no letter from Kodak UK regarding the future for HSI 4x5 sheet film.
> >>
> >> However I did get a call this morning from a supplier who told me that they
> >> had talked to Kodak UK regarding future supplies.
> >>
> >> The latest story is that Kodak are going to discontinue the Estar-based HSI
> >> (how it is normally supplied) and will in the future supply HSI in the
> >> thinner acetate base as used in 35mm HIE.
> >>
> >> Reading between the lines, this means that Kodak will be simply cutting the
> >> 4x5 sheets from the same stock as that used for 35mm.
> >
> >Better/more-logical: from the same stock as 9.5" Aerographic IR.
> >That's also where 8x10" for government agencies comes from AFAIK....
> >(no sales to civil users AFAIK)
> 
> Yes, that seems to make more sense, however it would make more sense for
> Kodak to rationalise on one IR B&W film stock.
> 
> Are there any differences between 9.5" Aerographic IR and 35mm HIE stock
> other than size and sprocket holes?

I believe there was a significant difference in chemistry with
Aerochrome 9.5"....we had a member in Australia who used these rolls
to cut 8x10" sheets....I recall something about a nasty purple
cast....that report might even be documented somewhere on my
homepage.... 

Btw, yesterday I also learned that 70mm and 9.5" were not the only
sizes of bulk rolls....5" was also listed in 1993....I updated my
film-size table with those, but I was wondering if they still
supplied that format, in particular EIR/E-6/AR-5 (in 1993 this was
EI/E-4/AE-4 of course) might be cheaper cutting sheets from 5" rolls,
since the film is now identical anyway.....

Btw2: sprocket holes are probably the same as for 35mm....they are 
for 70mm....:-))












 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
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