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Subject: [Leica] infrared - Howard
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:12:41 +0100
References: <A992088F-1C31-43AB-B431-E22C3DB1FE64@mac.com> <23E22F10-C80B-4B3A-9637-6C93D26C0566@bex.net>

Beauties Howard! Beauties. Congrats.

I took the liberty of adjusting my favorite to my taste. I mainly locally 
sharpened and increased contrast on the canoe and anglers to make them the 
focus in this wonderful shrine. No harm intended :-)

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/IR-Howard-1000160.jpg.html
 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/IR-Howard-1000160.jpg.html>

Keep them coming!

 
Amities

Philippe



> Le 27 janv. 2019 ? 04:54, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> a ?crit :
> 
> If you recall, Leica famously had to provide free IR filters to purchasers 
> of M8s because the filter glass over the sensor didn?t eliminate the 
> shorter part of the IR spectrum, resulting in addition of a red component 
> to the image under certain conditions. Naturally, this ?bug? can be turned 
> into a ?feature?, also known as making lemonade when life hands you 
> lemons. An M8 makes a fine IR camera.
> 
> My first digital Leica was an M8. I supplanted it with an M240, and 
> repurposed the M8 as an IR camera.  I use it with a deep IR filter (a B+W 
> 093, IIRC ? I?m away from home just now) and skew the focus empirically. 
> See here:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/gallery/ 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/gallery/>
> 
> 
> ?howard
> 
> 
>> On Jan26, 2019, at 1347, Steve Barbour via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Please help. I will convert a camera for shooting  infrared. I would 
>> appreciate your advice re  the camera  of choice, dealer that is best, 
>> cost, and I recall a statement re certain cameras that do this best, even 
>> without modification.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Can you help?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I thank you very much.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Steve  Barbour
>> 
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