Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, To me digital is the way to go. But the modern digital cameras, except for the M8, don't have much IR sensitivity. In the Nikon line the latest body to have acceptable IR sensitivity is the D70. BTW you can pick up mint D70's in the box with everything that came with it for $300. My dealer has 3 or 4 of them like that. Len On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I've seen breathtaking imagery taken with UV and IR photography. > Should those images be ignored?! I don't get it! > I'd love to be able to do some. I got a very dark dark red IR > filter once > from B+W but never gave it much of a shot. Digital seems like the > way to fly > for this stuff. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:06:48 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Ultra Violet photography >> >> Hi Marty, >> >> I understand where you're coming from. To me it is a different art >> form. It's not everyone's taste, actually very few I think. My son, >> who also shoots with the M8 and Leica film cameras doesn't like it at >> all. He calls it unsettling. Meanwhile I'll just go happily along >> doing the things that I like. But I do appreciate your comments. >> >> Cheers, >> Len >> >> >> >> On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Len, >>> >>> I appreciate your perspective, but never understood why someone >>> would want to take pink and blue pictorial photos. I confess to >>> agreeing with much of this: >>> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/ >>> why-i-hate-infrared.html and think it applies equally to UV >>> pictorial photography. >>> >>> Perhaps the aesthetics of pictorial UV and IR photography elude me >>> (although I do understand why Henning and select others use it). >>> >>> Marty >>> >>> >>> Gallery: >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php?g2_itemId=7617 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Be Yourself @ mail.com! >>> Choose From 200+ Email Addresses >>> Get a Free Account at www.mail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information