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I shot some Rollei IR over the past year, see https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/infrared-pictures-of-dundee-on-rollei-infrared-film.741558/ for some examples. It does need a lot of light as the film itself is really more around ISO 200 than 400 and the required R72 filter absorbs about...

Looks like Palm Labs in Birmingham has gone now as well sadly. Shame as they'd been in business for nearly 40 years and I was planning on sending them some E6 shortly as they still offered mounting (I'm old-fashioned and like projecting slides). They had been very helpful a couple of times in...

It seems to depend on the individual store. In my local one, I popped in recently just thinking they'd have something (hopefully some FP4+ etc) as I'd finally finished a roll and it was a nice day out. Turns out they've ripped out the entire photo department and stuck 3 do it yourself printing...

Thanks very much! Like with any film, you have no idea what it will ultimately look like... Squinting through the filter though can give you a faint idea though as you can sort of the see the result. I was actually quite surprised how well many of them came out well, with normal B&W over the...

Thanks very much, it is quite difficult to judge what the effect will be. These were taken around about 1100 - 1400 when the IR effect should have been strongest as the sun was overhead, but even then it varied depending on which direction I was facing. You might want to try out Adox HR50 as...

Thanks for your comment. 1. Kind of difficult to get any foreground interest with a sheer drop in front of me, as these were taken from hilltops! 2. Can I just point out that the "noise" you speak of is actually real film grain, which is an inherent part of using film? Yes, it could be probably...

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Here are some landscapes of around Dundee shot on Rollei IR400 infrared 35 mm B&W film. These were taken about a year and half ago with a Pentax Spotmatic F and SMC Takumar 55 mm F1.8 or 28 mm F3.5 lenses and an R72 infrared filter, with apertures of around F8 -16. I'd never shot IR before, so...

Thanks Stephen, I'm going to try and get back to doing more photography. I've probably done more in the last few months than I have in theast 4-5 years. I've got a few rolls that I did shoot though and got the negatives back about a year ago, I'll have to dust off my Reflecta Proscan 7200 and...

I was surprised how many of them came out so well with the exposure. Thanks very much for the recommendation, I like the grain with the Rollei IR400, but it would be nice to have a go with the Adox HR50 as well for a less grainy option. Probably have to wait until next spring now though. I'll...

Thanks very much! It is quite awkward shooting IR on film as you can't meter IR light and therefore have meter without the filter and then go on an assumption that the filter absorbs X stops. However, the amount of reflected IR will differ depending on the scene conditions. Fortunately, B&W film...

A big part of the reason for the poor quality prints upon introduction in the 1970s was that Kodak designed an enlarging lens specifically optimised for producing prints from the small 16 mm frames of 110. Unfortunately, the majority of photo labs didn't bother buying this enlarging lens and...

Hi, it's been a few years since I've been on Talk Photography (a few people may remember me...). I've not been doing much photography for the past 4-5 years because of the stresses of my PhD, but I've recently finished a roll of Rollei Infrared film that somebody on here gave me a few years ago...

All Spotmatics have voltage compensating circuitry as an inherent part of the meter design, you can put any substitute in for the original mercury cell and you'll be fine.

It unfortunately looks like Club 35 is gone as their website is unavailable and they no longer show up on Google. I'll try again in a few days, but if they have gone it's unfortunate as I always used them for my C41 due to their low dev + print prices (I usually just like flicking through and...