earthmanbuck
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Hi everyone, I've been reading up on infrared photography lately and am intrigued, but I have a few questions I would like to double check on before I buy anything.
1) I know there are a few places making B&W Infrared 35mm (Ilford, Efke, I think Rollei has something out too)...any experience with these? Which should I go with? I also thought I read somewhere that the Ilford stuff isn't 'real' infrared, but I'm not entirely sure what that means.
2) I understand the exposure time is ridiculous when shooting infrared, so I'm going to need a tripod, right? And it just occurred to mecan I even get one of those attachable shutter-triggering things for my Pentax K1000, so I don't have to manually hold down the shutter the whole time? (What are those things called anyway??)
3) What kind of filter do I need? I know there are the opaque ones you can't see through, but I thought I read something about red IR filters you can continue to focus and see through when using a film SLR. Is there any reason to get an opaque one over one of the red ones? Obviously I'd prefer to see what I'm doing.
1) I know there are a few places making B&W Infrared 35mm (Ilford, Efke, I think Rollei has something out too)...any experience with these? Which should I go with? I also thought I read somewhere that the Ilford stuff isn't 'real' infrared, but I'm not entirely sure what that means.
2) I understand the exposure time is ridiculous when shooting infrared, so I'm going to need a tripod, right? And it just occurred to mecan I even get one of those attachable shutter-triggering things for my Pentax K1000, so I don't have to manually hold down the shutter the whole time? (What are those things called anyway??)
3) What kind of filter do I need? I know there are the opaque ones you can't see through, but I thought I read something about red IR filters you can continue to focus and see through when using a film SLR. Is there any reason to get an opaque one over one of the red ones? Obviously I'd prefer to see what I'm doing.