Re: questions about fogging on ir from some cameras

[Eckhard Stephan <eckhard.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Troy,
> 
> i was talking ir photography with a friend of mine at college today. i had
> brought up that i was interested in taking ir pics but was somewhat leary
> about the fogging problems that my eos rebel would cause, even though i have
> heard from some of you all on here that it isnt that big of a deal. 

Just give it a try ! Only the area around the sprocket holes and some 2
mm at the bottom of your image will get fogged. If you take photo
classes, you probably have access to a darkroom. Just print your pics
yourself - a little crop will cure the fogging problem. ;-) 

anyway,
> i guy overheard me and jumped in and told me that if you wipe some photo-flo
> over the counter in the back it works perfectly and its as good as gold. i
> thought this was extremely interesting.

Why not test it, when you shoot your next roll of HIE ? :-)) Sounds
quite strange though. If the photo-flo worked as an IR-blocker (????),
the camera probably wouldn't work. I once tried to cover the IR-LED of
my EOS-500 N with some black tape. The result was that the camera
thought the film wasn't loaded correctly an therefore didn't function.
On the other hand, if the photo-flo didn't block IR, you would still get
fogging...

Good luck, 

Eckhard


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