The 2nd reason HIE must be handled in the dark is the lack of anti-halation coating.
Interesting. Does this mean that if one use it in a camera with one of these film pressure plates with "bumps", you're likely to see reflections of the bumps on the prints? (I was told in darkroom class this was the main point of anti-halation coatings.)
On a sidenote, I just picked up a roll of HIE at Jessops in London, who warned that it would get fogged by almost anything - including mobile phones. Not sure how much truth there was in this, but sending it through the security check scanner didn't seem particularly appealing. So I took a chance and put in my jeans pocket, and, hey, no beep. Come to think of it, why should it? After all the casing is made of aluminium, which is non-magnetic. So from now on I'll forget insisting on hand searches - I'll just stuff them down my pants. At least until I get banned from the lab.
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