Perhaps the film was not stored properly - if HEI gets hot (even very warm)
it can fog up pretty quickly.
I've shot lots of HEI in an ME-Super, changed it in a changing bag (outdoors
even - though in the shade) and use an Omega tank, which is pretty similar
to the Pattersons - and I've never had a problem with fogging.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Stoddart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: Kodak HIE advice please?
Guys,
A colleague and I have both independently shot a roll of Kodak HIE film
and both suffered fogging. We're trying to track down the cause and I was
hoping there might be some collective experience on the list? We actually
shot the rolls about a year apart, but apart from that everything we did
was remarkably similar.
1. We both were slavishly careful in handling the film, loading and
unloading in a changing bag, keeping the film in its plastic tub when
outside the camera.
2. We both used a Patterson plastic developing tank.
3. We both developed with ID-11 stock as per instructions for D76.
4. Both used Pentax cameras :-) (him ME-Super, me Program A)
The film appears to be evenly fogged in that the rebate/sprockets are also
grey through the entire length of the film. You can just make out a faint
image in some of the frames. All we can think of is that the film fogged
in the plastic tank (both of us developed in daylight). The film before
that one through my tank was a 120 roll of SFX-200 and that was fine with
no fogging at all and my colleague has successfully developed more than
one roll of Konica infra-red in his tank.
Can anyone suggest anything else we could have done wrong?
Chris
