I have only shot IR film in 2 cameras, Aries 35 III and Hasselblad 500 c/m. I like the results have been getting with both using D-76 1:1...... Still learning though......
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Please explain?I don't understand why you would have a favourite camera for IR film. Surely it makes no difference.
Please explain?
Well providing you have the focus setting adjustment for IR on the focus ring, I can't see why the camera would make a difference.
The useful visible light blocking/IR transmitting filters are essentially opaque. If you put one on an SLR, you won't be able to see to compose or focus, so using such a camera forces you to constantly mount and un-mount an opaque filter.I don't understand why you would have a favourite camera for IR film. Surely it makes no difference.
I am sure that most photographer types like myself have or have more than one camera, and out of those, a favorite or two, for what ever the reasons may be, are and or have been preferred.
The useful visible light blocking/IR transmitting filters are essentially opaque. If you put one on an SLR, you won't be able to see to compose or focus, so using such a camera forces you to constantly mount and un-mount an opaque filter.
Exposures with IR filters are typically long, so cameras well suited to low vibration use are good.
Some cameras have bellows that are IR transparent, so are therefore poor choices.
The "IR" focus setting adjustment on lenses is of little use with the currently available near-IR films, because the wavelengths of light that those films are sensitive to are so close to visible light.Well providing you have the focus setting adjustment for IR on the focus ring, I can't see why the camera would make a difference.
Yes, I understand that, but why a camera preference when using IR film?
Let us assume that one does not have the skill to estimate exposure accurately by eye, nor own an exposure meter ... in which case, a rangefinder with through-the-lens metering (say, an M6 or one of the Bessa R*a or R*m) will make life much easier for composing and accurately exposing the film. An SLR fitted with an opaque or all but opaque filter however is is much less convenient, and any exposure data in the viewfinder (unless illuminated) will be all but invisible.
Shootingon on a tripod might be one riposte to my points, but of course not everyone likes or wishes to use a tripod.
How does an exposure meter estimate for IR?
Meter reading minus 4 stops in speed for me...
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