New films shown at ICIS by Fuji and Kodak

[wirehead]

Okay, I have sent off my request.

I'm still debating as to if it would have been tasteful to say "to show up my DSLR using friends" as one of the applications.

[bobbysandstrom]

Boy it's great to hear about this. It could be a new wave for the future as it would be so practical with regards to image storage when compared to digital. I have mentioned how nice it would be to have a thermal printer that would connect to a computer and spit out an image that resides in an emulsion. Wow, the possibilities are certainly exciting!

[DBP]

Okay, I have sent off my request.

I'm still debating as to if it would have been tasteful to say "to show up my DSLR using friends" as one of the applications.

And SLR using friends in general for that matter. EI 24000 is definitely rangefinder work. I'd love to see people react to me taking action pics at night with a Speed Graphic, no tripod, and no flash.

Weegee might have to come back from the dead to use this one.

[Petzi]

I think I'm going to use my mother's old flat iron.

[Petzi]

I am wondering about grain. Will it be useful in 35mm?

[benjiboy]

Brings to mind an old photographic saying that a lens or film was "so fast you could shoot a black cat in a coal cellar with it " now we really can.

[dschneller]

Basically, you use a heated metal plate and you hold the film on the plate (in the industry it is called a hot shoe) and the film develops. Don't inhale the fumes.

PE

Would a hot water bath work as well?

[Petzi]

Water isn't liquid at 160 deg C.

[dschneller]

Water isn't liquid at 160 deg C.

Understood, I was wondering if the 160 deg C was a critical temperature or if development could occurr at a lower temperature for a longer time. Similar to using a diluted developer.

I also wonder if it could be baked in an oven at 160 deg C. The thought of holding the film on a hot plate in the dark brings to mind images of burnt fingers and hands!:o

[Petzi]

I think an oven could not work because when you open it, the hot air comes out. Then you insert the film. The film needs to be warmed up to the right temperature, and that is going to take a while because even when the air has the right temperature, it is not a good conductor of heat and does not store heat well. It would thus be cooled in the vicinity of the film for a moment.

So it would be pretty hard to control temperature and time of development. In the oven you would have to rely mostly on convection (and perhaps some radiation), while the metal of mummy's flat iron stores heat well, and its surface would not be significantly cooled down by the contact with the film.

Perhaps an FB paper dryer could work, but I think most can not reach 160 deg C.