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IR Experiment The Musician
Started May 27, 2012 @ 3:13pm by MCampbell
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MCampbell
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| IR Experiment The Musician | May 27, 2012 @ 3:13pm | Here is an image from my son Eric. He took the Fuji X Pro 1 and IR filter to Spain. He is in Barcelona and has been experimenting with it. One of his first efforts to show the potential. May have been hand held or lightly braced: 18mm 1/4" F 2.0 ISO 3200
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Last Edit: May 27, 2012 @ 3:18pm by MCampbell | |
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Flo
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| June 1, 2012 @ 11:25am | I swear this looks like one of those monster movies! I mean really scary!
Also, this doesn't look like the typical sort of grainy B&W IR image. Did he shoot in B&W or color and then convert? I never thought to shoot in IR with slow shutter speeds!
Did you get an IR filter for one of the lenses, or is there a built-in filter, like the FX100 has a built-in ND filter?
When is Eric getting home? What a wonderful opportunity for him and his classmates.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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MCampbell
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| June 1, 2012 @ 1:20pm | Thanks for commenting Flo. The camera does not have a built in filter. I purchased an IR filter from Singray.
If I understand correctly the digital cameras have a hot filter to block IR light so the exposure will be correct. This means to shoot IR you have to either get the filter removed (which permanently wrecks the camera for ordinary visible light photography) or expose for a long time like 30 seconds etc.
According to some the Fuji IR filter is not really strong so it allows quite a bit of IR light. You still need long exposures but here it was only 1/4". The outstanding performance at ISO 3200 also gives you some room. That allows for almost handheld or at least braced against a lamp pole etc.
The image was posted for interest. It is not perfect but really shows potential. The white clothing makes everyone look like ghosts. The musician was relatively static while the passersby kept moving by and seem more like phantoms. One nice thing about the Fuji is you can compose with the filter on because with the rangefinder style viewfinder the visible light still reaches your eye so composition is a breeze.
I think he set the camera for B & W and did not bother with post processing. Adobe just introduced RAW support for the camera this week and although I sent him the link I dont know if he is using it.
The class moved on from Barcelona and are spending a week in small villages in the south of France before moving on to Paris for the last 6 days. He has sent me a number of interesting images and I posted some of them on my blog. It is wine country, they are college students, its co-ed and primarily for fun so there apparently has not been much time to "work on the images" according to Eric. He mainly shoots images of food like pizza topped with duck meat which my son advises is surprisingly tasty.
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Flo
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| June 1, 2012 @ 2:58pm | Michael, thanks for the additional info. You wrote: "If I understand correctly the digital cameras have a hot filter to block IR light so the exposure will be correct. This means to shoot IR you have to either get the filter removed (which permanently wrecks the camera for ordinary visible light photography) or expose for a long time like 30 seconds etc."
No, removal of that filter doesn't permanently ruin the camera for taking visible light images. What you'd need to get then is a (very) expensive filter that blocks IR and UV light, allowing only visible light to pass through.
I have one of these special filters that I got when I bought Fuji's S3 Pro IR/UV body. It doesn't have the IR/UV blocking filter. These cameras were produced only for a short time and were mainly for law enforcement forensics people. I had to get mine from B&H in BYC, as only a few of the largest photo dealers were able to get these special cameras. It's built on a Nikon D200 body, so takes Nikon-mount lenses.
I also use this special visible light pass filter on my regular 52mm lenses, as it helps cut through environmental haze and seems to help with purer color renditions.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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MCampbell
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| June 1, 2012 @ 4:12pm | Thanks for the clarification Flo.
PS. incidentally, the Fuji uses a 52mm filter in the 18mm and 35mm lenses.
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Last Edit: June 1, 2012 @ 4:14pm by MCampbell | |
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