Loading color film using night vision goggles

[Albin]

You just need IR "goggles" and an IR light source. That's how we process all the color film at Newlab here in San Francisco (except for EIR of course!)

It could help if you give us the brand of IR goggles you are using at Newlab in San Francisco.

I want to make the good buy.

Thank You

[htmlguru4242]

Any nightvision goggles will work with IR illumination; they're designed in this manner so that they can be used with an IR light indoors or in total darkness.

Just make sure, as mentioned above, to use IR LEDs without any red or near-red (850nm or so) output.

[fschifano]

If your goal is simply to use IR goggles as an aid to loading reels, why would you need them in the first place? A little practice and you can do it as easily in total darkness as you can sighted. Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through for very little gain.

[leicam5]

For goggles : look at FJW Industries from Illinois, this is what I have, and as a light-source : the famous Kodak safe light lamp-house with a n° 11 filter (CAT 107 9326), works fine.

Good luck,

Philippe