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Re: Filters in front of the film plane - backgrounder

  • From: Daniel Cardish <dcardish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Filters in front of the film plane - backgrounder
  • Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:11:29 -0400
At 10:23 PM 28/9/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Permit me to jump in on this discussion since I believe it was possibly my
>suggestion  many years ago that IR filters could be placed in this position and
>allow one to use SLR cameras for "action IR photography". This appeared in the
>PSA Journal. Even before this time this was "standard" operating procedure in
>my Photoinstrumentation classes at RIT. In that same article the "modification"
>and calibration of a Weston LunaPro CdS meter for more accurate IR exposure
>predictions was also mentioned and had been covered in my "Special Effects"
>classes for many years.                                                 
>                               
>Anyway, with respect to the location of the filter, .....[snip, snip]

Why not use a rangefinder camera for "action IR photography" and not worry
about jury rigging an SLR to use dense IR filters.


Dan Cardish  <dcardish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                        <http://www.spherenet.com/dcardish/photo.htm>
        


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