Question for photographers on Infra Red photography.

Hi folks
I still have an old Canon T90 which I used to use for Infra red photography (Black and white infra red). However getting 35 mm film stock and chemicals is getting a lot harder.

What is a good quality IR filter good enough to use on a modern DSLR to get the effect accurately.

I'm using a Canon EOS R mirrorless DSLR. I think the level I need for full IR is pure infrared -- B&W (850nm).

@barman58 I know you do a load of photography -- any suggestions on this one. I've no probs with photoshop and the correct white balance but finding a quality filter seems a problem. Plenty of cheap stuff around though but using those I might just as well stick a red "Cadbury's Roses chocolate" wrapper over the lens. !!

I got the EOS R for Xmas and am dying to try it out -- the mirrorless feature is brilliant . It took me almost the whole os Xmas and Boxing day to just read the manual !!!!. I absolutely love this thing -- willl probably sleep with it under my pillow.

Happy new year to everyone and happy shooting for all the photographers out there.

Cheers
jimbo

Not done anything with infrared Photography but with modern digital I have seen some good work done with post processing, In the film days you had to use a camera filter to produce the negative

These days you are technically working at the negative level when using photoshop, It should be a case of convert from colour to B&W and then refilter the B&W image to produce the IR version.

There may be specific filters that can provide an All-In-One solution or a progamatic option both of course could be dependent on the version of PS in use .

I'll take a look at my sources, and see what I can find, I've seen some amazing conversions online, but not looked at methods in depth so It's an interesting project

jimbo45 said:

I'm using a Canon EOS R mirrorless DSLR. I think the level I need for full IR is pure infrared -- B&W (850nm).

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Good camera, but it´s a mirrorless, not a DSLR. Two different animals. DSLRs are being discontinued, mirrorless is "the future".

you could try this for Photoshop

barman58 said:

Not done anything with infrared Photography but with modern digital I have seen some good work done with post processing, In the film days you had to use a camera filter to produce the negative

These days you are technically working at the negative level when using photoshop, It should be a case of convert from colour to B&W and then refilter the B&W image to produce the IR version.

There may be specific filters that can provide an All-In-One solution or a progamatic option both of course could be dependent on the version of PS in use .

I'll take a look at my sources, and see what I can find, I've seen some amazing conversions online, but not looked at methods in depth so It's an interesting project

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Thanks

I'll mess about also with some of the extra filters in Photoshop - there's a few possible interesting ones to try out too -- however I'm sure that a physical IR filter will probably achieve a better result than software -- nice thing for me to experiment with.

The old Canon FD 400 MM 2.8 lens I still have (huge beast) also works brilliantly with the proper pro canon FD adapter !!!! Needs the EF-EOS-R mount (all electrical conditions OK with the adapter) then just attach fD adapter and lens (with tripod of course).



will need some messing about with manual focus and exposure -- the FD adapter reduces by 2/3 a stop and has 1.26X focal length so a bit of playing around needed too. !!!!!


I just love the new toy !!!!
@Anibor_11

I mentioned DSLR - to emphasize a digital camera -- mirrorless is the way to go of course . Without a mirror the "R - reflexive" is obviously redundant. !!!



Happy new year

Cheers
jimbo