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Subject: [Leica] My modest infra-red attempts (M8, B+W 092, Noctilux)
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:48:53 -0400
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Thanks Nathan, good to talk to you again.

Some of us produce art.

Some of us use filters that turn their friends' hair blue!!

-rei



On 09/19/2016 03:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> You did well, but I really prefer IR in black & white. Still, the M8 is 
> brilliant for that.
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> Cheers,
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>> On 18 Sep 2016, at 19:08, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> When the giants of the LUG talk, I listen!
>>
>> A couple of weeks back there was a buzz of interest about IR photography 
>> and the M8.  Well, gee, I still have one of those in my closet, and the 
>> last time I dabbled with IR it was SFX200 in my Rolleiflex 15 years ago, 
>> so I went out and ordered a B+W 092 filter to give it a whirl.
>>
>> I'll bet you any reasonable person would say, "well you've got a 35 asph 
>> lux, why not set it at f8 and bring back some keepers?"  Of course, 
>> thinking exactly that, I went back to my safe place and chose the 
>> Noctilux at f1.0 for my inquiry.  And the voices continued: "The Noctilux 
>> is optically inferior especially at f1.0, it's too long -- more so on an 
>> M8, and you'll never be able to focus it.  Oh yes, and don't even think 
>> of trying it on human beings."
>>
>> My improvident impulses prevailed, the results of which I've put on the 
>> gallery:
>>
>>  From this weekend, in upstate NY with friends:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/InfraOktoberFest2016/
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>>  From last weekend, moments from freeing the B+W 092 filter from its UPS 
>> box, my very first attempts at exposing and focusing with the 092 filter.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/IRTest-M8-Noct-BW092/
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>> Comments:
>>
>> Exposure: the M8 meter worked reasonably well with the 092 filter, I 
>> occasionally had to dial it up +1 stop.  Exposures with the 092 at f1.0 
>> ended up at 1/60 sec @ 160 or 320.
>> Focus: using the focus scale on the lens was a non-starter for me, too 
>> complicated and the numbers too darn small.  What I did end up doing was 
>> to locate a point approximately 3/4 or 2/3 of the distance to my subject 
>> and focus on that with the rangefinder.  After a little practice, this 
>> proxy focusing method worked surprisingly well even at f1.0.  And you 
>> always have the screen to check and adjust.
>> Composition: Non-issue--love the optical viewfinder!
>> Processing: Minimal.  I use Digikam on Linux.  The originals tend to look 
>> like sepia prints.  I try to reset a white point, then adjust curves to 
>> get back contrast, then dial back some saturation.  Images with sky look 
>> dramatic, with Star Trek orange skies, terrestrial objects more subdued.  
>> I didn't do any sharpening or channel switching or anything sophisticated 
>> on these sets.
>>
>> Thanks LUG for the inspiration and fun!
>>
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In reply to: Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] My modest infra-red attempts (M8, B+W 092, Noctilux))
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] My modest infra-red attempts (M8, B+W 092, Noctilux))