William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Isaac Crawford > Subject: Re: Pushing and Pulling film > > > Also, what about hypering and other tricks astrophoto people > have been > > using for years? I seem to recall a technique of letting the > B&W film > > absorb hydrogen peroxide fumes to boost the film speed. I > can't recall > > if it was done before or after the exposure... > > I have also heard about super cooling the emulsion in liquid > hydrogen or some such for boosting speed. This sort of thing is > done prior to exposure, and alters the basic emulsion chemistry. > While certainly a useful technique for glass plate films, it is > not really germain to the discussion at hand. > William Robb
I dunno... I seem to recall being able to buy "hypered" film from various telescope vendors... Granted, they were mostly doing it with Tech pan and other slow fims, but I don't see why one couldn't do it for faster ones as well... Isaac > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .