ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a special-use films, one should be confident in camera handling, exposure, and in processing a wide variety of general-purpose black-and-white films before proceeding. Film is the fundamental material for recording an analog image, and its basic characteristics are crucial in determining the look of the final image. The information provided in the chapter is designed to offer aesthetic and technical possibilities that cannot be achieved through the use of conventional films. Black-and-white infrared (IR) films are sensitive to all wavelengths of the visible spectrum of light but also extend into the IR region. Regular camera lenses are not designed to focus IR wavelengths. High-contrast litho films are orthochromatic and can be handled under a red safe-light. A frame grabber is another form of input that enables one to capture an individual analog video frame and digitize it as a still image.
