Re: Infrared-Digest V #425

[Les Jorgensen <jorgfoto@xxxxxxxx>]

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Carl,
Your Nikon 950 is all the rage with the Photographic Virtual Reality crowd.
Seems you can capture, with the fisheye lens, sperical panoramas that play on your
desktop interactively.  I don't believe I've seen an IR sperical  VR
panorama...yet...
Cheers,
Les Jorgensen
http://www.wervr.com



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> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:43:41 -0400
> From: "Carl Schofield" <cschofi1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: New IR gallery of Carl Schofield
>
> Les,
>
> I'm also amazed by the IR performance of these consumer grade digital
> cameras. I have used both greyscale and color modes with the Nikon 950, but
> haven't seen much difference in the results.  Curious that the Nikon saves
> the greyscale mode image files in RGB format.  I don't think that there is a
> filter over the ccd, but I'll check with Nikon tech support.  I can boost
> the speed somewhat by changing the default iso 80 up to 320 iso, but
> sacrifice quality by introducing noise.  I've made some fairly decent 6x8
> and even 8x10 greyscale prints using the Epson 750 photo printer and could
> get a better tonal scale with the new MIS or Lysonic quadtone inks designed
> for this type of printing.  I certainly couldn't get anything larger without
> resampling the image and definitely not the quality you are getting with
> your equipment.
>
> Carl Schofield
> - ----------
> >From: Les Jorgensen <jorgfoto@xxxxxxxx>
> >To: infrared@xxxxx
> >Subject: Re: New IR gallery of Carl Schofield
> >Date: Thu, Sep 23, 1999, 10:49 PM
> >
>
> >>
> >
> >Carl Schofield,
> >Bravo. Wonderful. It looks like the Coolpix chip has a nice long IR range.  Did
> >you capture this in a Greyscale mode or Color?  My experience has been that the
> >digital color mode capture has the longer dynamic range  Isn't it amazing that
> >almost all digital chips see so well into the IR spectrum?  I've been using the
> >Phase One digital camera with a 87c Kodak gel.  I have to take off the special
> >dichroic blue filter (which blocks out the offending red +spectrum for normal
> >color intergrity) and find nearly normal shutter speeds. Sounds like you slow the
> >Coolpix 950 down.  I wonder if there is an internal blueish filter that is
> >removable on the Coolpix to speed things up?
> >And how usable is a 5.5MB  file other than the web and snapshot size output?
> >Spread the  digital IR word,
> >Les Jorgensen
> >http://www.lesjorgensen.com
> >
> >>

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