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Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Campello in infrared
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:59:00 +0100
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Thanks Douglas. The beauty of the M8 is that it needs no conversion at all, 
you just slap on the appropriate filter and away you go. I had a tripod with 
me (in fact, I keep a tripod in the trunk of my car at all times), but it 
was not needed.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/

YNWA









On Jan 27, 2014, at 2:07 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:

> That's a great set, Nathan! I'm not prepared to amend a recent digital 
> camera but I must buy some infra red film again.
> 
> Douglas
> _________
> Douglas Barry
> Bray, Co. Wicklow
> Republic of Ireland
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>
> To: "lug Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
> <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 7:24 PM
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: El Campello in infrared
> 
> 
>> A few days ago, George on the Leica list pointed out to me that my M8 is 
>> the perfect digital IR camera. So this afternoon, with 25C/80F and blue 
>> sky and bright sunshine, I drove to El Campello to have a walk along the 
>> beach with my M8 and a Helipan 695 filter. And George was right; the M8 
>> works beautifully as a digital IR camera. Here are 17 images. The only 
>> processing in LR was to convert them to B&W, hit AUTO for the exposure 
>> and add a bit of Clarity. I loved IR in my film days, and I still love it 
>> now:
>> 
>> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/El-Campello-infrared
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> YNWA
>> 
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