Re: Advice/bio

["Keith Zimmerman" <zz_ir@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Colin McKie <colinmckie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Advice/bio
>
>Jessie Harris wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm a student photographer who has been happily shooting pictures with 
>her
> > K1000 until she heard that she may not be able to use infrared with
> > it.

>Hi Jessie,
>
>The only problem you may have with a K1000 is in seeing an image of the
>dimpled pressure plate on your film, reported by some users although I
>have never seen it on our Pentax MX or Cosina CT-1. The easy fix for
>that is to cut a piece of 120 film backing paper to match the pressure
>plate and fix it with thin double-sided tape (black side out). If you do
>this you could dedicate the K1000 to IR and get a state of the art
>machine for other film. And why a Nikon? Go for a Pentax MZ-5n or even a
>Z-1p and you can share lenses.
>
>Good luck with the IR anyway,
>
>Colin

Jessie, I agree with Colin.  I taught myself photography with a K1000 and 
still use it for my IR work.  I shoot almost everything else with a Pentax 
ZX-5.  Pentax makes excellent lens and my ZX-5 can use every lens I have 
ever aquired for my K1000.  Besides the control achieved with a manual is 
great.  With IR, I just do not like to use automation.

All my IR photos have been done with Konica and I have never experienced a 
problem related to the camera.  I plan to use test the dimpled pressure 
plate with Kodak HIE because I will only believe there is a problem if and 
only if I experience it.

Good luck and enjoy the ride.

Keith Zimmerman
zz_ir@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://homepage.dave-world.net/~vkzimm/infrared.html

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