Can anyone tell me if Canon T90 is compatible with Kodak infrared film? Thanks.

-- David (dna2367@hotmail.com), November 15, 1999

Answers

You can shoot Kodak infrared film with any camera I suppose. It's unpredictable but interesting. If you need details shoot me an e-mail and I'll try to help. If you plan to fool around with black and white infrared it's not a big deal. If you plan to shoot color infrared with infrared strobe, that is a big deal.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), November 16, 1999.

Some cameras use LEDs to counts the frames by counting the holes in the perforation. If yours does that, it will ruin Kodak IR film because that film has no anti-halation backing, and the light from the LEDs will halate into the image. I don't know whether this is also a problem with the Konica IR film.

I have read that there are also problems with some plastics cameras which are not IR tight, and with some types of bellows. So you certainly can't use use IR film with any camera (at least not successfully).

-- Thomas Wollstein (thomas_wollstein@web.de), November 17, 1999.

I was talking about real cameras.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), November 17, 1999.

if the camera has an LED that counts frames, it will fog about 10-15% of the top of the image. that means a very slight part of the image. just over frame the shot if your worried about it. IR doesn't cost that much so grab a roll and try it. what can it hurt. James

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), November 28, 1999.