[Leica] IR photography with M8 and Elamarit-M 24/2.8

[George Lottermoser]

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