Kodak’s film discontinuance notice says: KODAK is preannouncing the discontinuance of several smaller running families of Professional film – EPR, EPN and High Speed Infrared (HIE) effective end of December 2007. Demand for these products has been declining significantly in recent years, and it is no longer practical to continue to manufacture given the low [...]

Digital Truth compare the new Efke IR820 and Rollei IR400 infrared films. Check it out.

UK photo retailer Silverprint reports in their newsletter that Kodak are discontinuing both of their infrared emulsions, the black and white HIE and the false-colour Ektachrome Infrared. Kodak will stop accepting orders from stockists for the films in May 2007, so start hoarding now. (Kodak’s web site doesn’t note the discontinuation, but that isn’t unusual, [...]

Ken Wronkiewicz has just posted some test shots with Efke’s new IR820c infrared black and white film. Check them out at his site, Wirehead Arts.

35mm and 120, hell yeah! Direct PDF links: data sheet, development chart Ilford press release: Monochrome enthusiasts will welcome the news of the reintroduction of ILFORD SFX 200 infrared film – the unique medium for adding incredible definition and texture control to outdoor black-and-white photography. Black-and-white goes red Underlining its commitment to the world of [...]

An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colors", or wavelengths. The detector, called a Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) array, was the world’s largest (one million-pixel) infrared array when the project was announced in March 2003. It was a low-cost alternative to conventional infrared [...]