[Leica] infrared - Howard

[Howard Ritter]

Bonjour, Philippe—

Your efforts produced quite an improvement. I must admit I took these photos before I had come to realize how much Photoshop’s Camera Raw can improve even images that you don’t immediately see as needing improvement, and I never got around to seeing what could be done with them.

The contrast improvement is not a surprise, but the gain in sharpness is. I've never been happy with the soft focus I always seem to get in IR despite having tried shifting focus and stopping down, or both. But as Nathan pointed out, less than critical sharpness usually doesn’t detract from the esthetics of an IR landscape. I think the increased sharpness you got strikes a nice balance.

No harm done!

Merci,
—howard 

> On Jan27, 2019, at 0512, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> Beauties Howard! Beauties. Congrats.
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> 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 :-)
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> 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>
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> Keep them coming!
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> Amities
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> Philippe
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>> Le 27 janv. 2019 à 04:54, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> a écrit :
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/gallery/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/gallery/>
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>> —howard
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>>> 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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