[Leica] infrared

[Howard Ritter]

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:
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> 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.
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> Can you help?
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> I thank you very much.
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> Steve  Barbour
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