rang wrote in post #6883435
Without a full conversion of your camera body to IR only...this is what you will see through the viewfinder no matter what band pass IR filter you mount on the front of the lens. So little visible light is passed that the view finder is essentially "black".
Thus that also means longer exposure times, no implulse "point and shoot hand held" type shooting. You are on a tripod and more "thought and process" goes into your shot.
...see the shot
...frame your shot in the view finder
...pick your WB shot for metering
...setup your custom WB
...set your exposure or braket exposures
...re-frame the shot
...screw on the filter on the front or if you are using a Cokin/Lee type; "slide" the filter onto the holder.
...set your shutter speed
...click the shutter.
...chimp the shot and make adjustments as necessary.
OR:
Pick up a gently used body and have it converted with the IR blocking filter in front of the sensor removed and replaced with the equivalent of a Hoya R72 (or more severe filter if you want) of the right "thickness".
THEN you can see through the viewfinder like any regular D/SLR and point and shoot to your hearts delight. But then the body is IR specific.
There is another conversion where the body can be used for both visible and IR which requires another filter on the front which allows for visible light pass (not sure of the process here so don't take my comment as gospel on this type of conversion).
Various companies on the net do the IR body conversions.
Or a buddy of mine JIm Chen Photography does a fine job of converted and re-focusing of bodies for IR. For less $'s then most.
Without a full conversion of your camera body to IR only...this is what you will see through the viewfinder no matter what band pass IR filter you mount on the front of the lens. So little visible light is passed that the view finder is essentially "black".
Thus that also means longer exposure times, no implulse "point and shoot hand held" type shooting. You are on a tripod and more "thought and process" goes into your shot.
...see the shot
...frame your shot in the view finder
...pick your WB shot for metering
...setup your custom WB
...set your exposure or braket exposures
...re-frame the shot
...screw on the filter on the front or if you are using a Cokin/Lee type; "slide" the filter onto the holder.
...set your shutter speed
...click the shutter.
...chimp the shot and make adjustments as necessary.
OR:
Pick up a gently used body and have it converted with the IR blocking filter in front of the sensor removed and replaced with the equivalent of a Hoya R72 (or more severe filter if you want) of the right "thickness".
THEN you can see through the viewfinder like any regular D/SLR and point and shoot to your hearts delight. But then the body is IR specific.
There is another conversion where the body can be used for both visible and IR which requires another filter on the front which allows for visible light pass (not sure of the process here so don't take my comment as gospel on this type of conversion).
Various companies on the net do the IR body conversions.
Or a buddy of mine JIm Chen Photography does a fine job of converted and re-focusing of bodies for IR. For less $'s then most.
Woops.
Think I missed a step between steps 3 and 4 above.
...With the IR filter mounted take your AWB shot (grass) and then choose that for your WB.
Good luck
-rang
