Petition to bring back Kodak's IR-Ektachrome

brbo said:
There was a petition on the same site 4 years ago to bring back Ektachrome. Only a thousand of us signed it... and look where it got us now! ;)
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Was that really because a thousand people signed a petition, or because the of movie industry, and we get the leftovers.? Which I'm happy with either way..
Have no clue if this statement has any truth to it, just thinking out loud.
Is ektachrome used in the film industry at all.?
 
Roger Hicks said:
We'd all love to see it. Not many of us are gullible enough to believe it could ever happen, though: a niche (IR) of a niche (slide films) of a niche (films). Also hellish expensive and not even standard E6 processing. How much IR-Ektachrome did YOU ever shoot? I shot maybe half a dozen rolls.

Cheers,

R.
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I think that is true for most, of those who even used it. From my experience, most photographers I talked to, amateur or pro, never used it, many didn't even know it existed. I am sure I used b/w IR more, but not that much of that either.

As you said, a niche of a niche of a niche.
 
Hmm I didn't know it required a different process than standard E6. No, I have never shot it. But then most of the IR emulsions were gone by the time I got serious with photography. I do think there's a big difference between digital and film IR though so it's a pity that there are no real IR color emulsions

Roger Hicks said:
We'd all love to see it. Not many of us are gullible enough to believe it could ever happen, though: a niche (IR) of a niche (slide films) of a niche (films). Also hellish expensive and not even standard E6 processing. How much IR-Ektachrome did YOU ever shoot? I shot maybe half a dozen rolls.

Cheers,

R.
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I don't want to see Kodak wasting time, money and resources on a film that essentially no-one will buy.
I want to see them succeed making film that people will buy so they succeed as a company making film.
 
stompyq said:
Hmm I didn't know it required a different process than standard E6. No, I have never shot it. But then most of the IR emulsions were gone by the time I got serious with photography. I do think there's a big difference between digital and film IR though so it's a pity that there are no real IR color emulsions
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It's been a long time since shooting Ektachrome IR but I seem to remember it wasn't recommended mixing non IR E3 film with IR in the same batch of chemistry. There were contaminates released that would cause problems between emulsion types. I don't remember this being the case with E4 process and pretty sure the E6 version could run with all E6 film. I'd have to check to be sure but believe I'm correct.

Must of the sales of EIR was for aerial survey/research applications. I'd say the majority was for 9" metric work. The film was 9" wide by 400' long and the cameras shot 9x9 inch images. The cameras were huge, heavy, complex, extremely precision and nose bleed expensive. I remember the Zeiss camera we used in the early 70's with all the goodies we used ran over $100,000.
 
To be honest I would be happy with a good B&W IR film. By "good" I mean one with significant sensitivity beyond 750nm, i.e., something like Kodak HIE or Efke IR820c as opposed to today's pseudo IR films that only have "extended red sensitivity". Color IR would be nice, but I have to think that B&W would be more within the realm of possibility. I'm making an assumption here that B&W IR is simpler and less costly to manufacture than color, although I don't really know that for sure.

Prest_400 said:
ADOX is rather parallel and they commented that a B&W IR was not feasible because of the cost of sensitizing the IR dyes.
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I wonder if that is true generally. I mean, might Kodak have the resources to do this more economically?
 
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