Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jim, The Rolleiflex will work just fine, if you can get the filters in the right size. I found that Heliopan 665, 695 or 715 worked best with Maco 820 film (depending on how extreme I wanted the IR effect to be), and those filters are hard to look through, especially the 715 (basically impossible). So any non-SLR camera is very helpful in that case. Nathan Jim Hemenway wrote: > Hi Nathan: > > I had an M6 a couple of years ago but didn't like the way the shade > covered about 1/4 of the viewfinder... so I traded it to a LUG member > for a big Telyt-R 4.8/350mm. So far looking through the red filter > hasn't bothered me. I guess that it would if I used the very dark red > filter which I've been told is THE correct one for infrared. I have > some very nice Retina RF cameras so I could try one of them... or use my > Rolleiflex TLR. > > Jim > > > Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> They definitely do look like real IR (which they are, of course). I >> especially like # 7 and 8 (Concord field). If you think you want to >> get into IR in a serious way, then get a Leica M or some other >> rangefinder, so you do not have to look at the world through a very >> dark (or even opaque) filter. >> >> Nathan >> >> Jim Hemenway wrote: >> >>> A friend gave me my first roll of Konica IR film... here are some photos >>> which I shot with it last week and finally had a chance to scan today. >>> >>> Ancient Pentax SV with Super-Takumar f3.5/35mm >>> and Fisheye-Takumar f4/17mm >>> >>> All shots taken at f5.6 at 1/60th as per the poop sheet. >>> >>> http://www.hemenway.com/InfraRed >>> >>> Notice to Leica aficionados: >>> >>> I didn't use the Leica R8 or the SL because I don't have a red or >>> orange filter to use on any of my R-lenses, instead I used a 49mm red >>> filter with the Pentax 35mm lens and the fisheye's internal orange,. >>> >>> Whaddaya think? Are they IR like? >>> >>> Gotta go now... no date tonight, but then again Monk, the obsessive >>> compulsive detective is on the telly. >>> >>> Jim > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com