Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] IR photography with M8 and Elamarit-M 24/2.8
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 15:08:31 -0600
References: <147AB253-B595-41AD-A38A-EC1BD9767A5C@bex.net> <D20E5017-A1A9-47DF-A5CB-D4DECB73E9E9@frozenlight.eu> <4613ED56-CB61-41D8-88AA-555FAB5D50F4@bex.net> <52E81003-D27A-4103-873D-DF1B577E31AD@icloud.com> <EC90DAFC-4E00-4F1D-8500-84793BF6705C@bex.net> <58C36A04-ACE0-4464-99CA-518E8142851C@icloud.com> <DF9879EF-7EA2-4A7E-8AF8-0CF2655C3C58@bex.net>

H-m-m? the 093 B&W is the only one I've used with the M8. It always delivers 
a distinctive IR image. And I have to assume that as you allow in more and 
more on the bottom end? the less "IR effect"?

Bottom line: it works for me.

a note off the iPad, George

On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Right, and I did get the IR cut filters from Leica. But there is a native 
> IR filter over the M8?s sensor, even if an inadequate one, and my reading 
> indicates that as the wavelength increases, its effectiveness improves so 
> that it?s reasonably effective for the deeper IR. In fact, one source 
> indicated that there?s so little overlap between the low-end tail of the 
> B+W 093?s passband and the high-end tail of the M8?s that it?s 
> questionable whether the 093 would even be useable. But the same article 
> included an attractive hand-held M8 image done with the 093, so 
> apparently, at least in some situations, there?s enough.
> 
> ?howard


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