M8 IR Photography

Is it possible? Reviews from Luminous-you-know-who essentially said ... yea, you

can but ... focus is not accurate and you need to bracket the focusing ... blah

blah blah ...

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So, I ask, "When do you do IR photography at f/1.4 or f/1.0?" 80% or more of all

IR photos I saw are landscape with greens in there and with that in mind, what

f-stop do you use? Should I worry about focusing inaccuracies? You tell me.

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Slapped the Hoya R72 filters on the M8 and went for a walk and the mystery is

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Totally unacceptable for a $5000 camera. The grey tones are all wrong.

 

Oh wait, ....

 

:-)

 

Very nice, Arthur. I have a deep red filter and need to try this again; I did a little experimenting with the M8 and IR when I first got it but haven't gotten back to it; your photos provide the needed inspiration.

You can blame it on Guy M. and JaapV ... they started the ball rolling and I thot I give it a try myself. It wasn't that demanding compared to film-based IR.

When you have lemons, make lemonade.

 

Very nice. I would exploit this more.

 

Didn`t mean the M8 was a real bad lemon, but there have been some problems.

Anyone know which, if any, of the M lenses might be corrected into the IR range, so that no refocusing would even be necessary? I think some of the R APO lenses have such extended correction, but I don't recall whether any of the M's do.

Why would you need refocusing unless you are doing shots that are wide open?

So that the point of focus is exactly where you want it, as in photogrpahy using the visible part of the spectrum.

If you want to use the camera as an expensive P&S device shooting everything at infinity and stopping down fast lenses, you need not worry about focus shifts.

 

Older Leica lenses had IR marks on them. The focus shift also would vary according to the thickness of the filter.

<i>If you want to use the camera as an expensive P&S device shooting everything at infinity and stopping down fast lenses, ...</i>

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...like <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/f64/hd_f64.htm">these guys</a>...

<p><i>...you need not worry about focus shifts.</i>

Take a look here for a fast lens IR snap:

 

http://nikongear.com/smf/index.php?topic=4294.0

Vivek,

 

What benefits do you reap from an IR portrait?

Arthur, Skin tones are different for starters. Background rendition is distinctly different.

 

I am yet to put my Canon 50/0.95 for such an application.

Well, here is one sample shot:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/5900775&size=lg

 

M8 for IR is definitely very versatile. I would hope that you would experiment with your fast lenses at open apertures and at closer ranges.

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Oops. Thought it was a W/NW IR thread. Please ignore or delete my last post.

>M8 for IR is definitely very versatile. I would hope that you would experiment with your fast lenses at open apertures and at closer ranges.

 

Thanks, Vivek, for the info.

 

 

Trevor,

 

Very cool effects!