Re: Filter/Speed/Meter & DON'T meter using a Nikon Camera

[George L Smyth <glsmyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Rolland Elliott <rolland_elliott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And I’ve used my N90s camera for about 5 years with many good results with 
> IR photography. However, you are fooling yourself if you think you are 
> metering IR light. You are metering visible light and it is just a 
> coincidence the IR exposure is fairly close to the level of vislble light.  

Well, I'd rather be lucky than good.  As I said, experience has me adjust for
the scene, but this coincidence has been fortunate for me for the past hundred
or so rolls of HIE, so hopefully the luck will continue.  I do post my pictures
on my Web site (below), so people can judge for themselves whether or not my
advice will work for their own personal style.

Cheers -

george

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