Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>4x5 IR is on par with other 4x5 products, for
>the most part. 21?4, on the other hand, I'm not
>tempted to try. While friends have used the 4x5
>IR commercially, I was never tempted. I did use
>35mm for a short time, as a portrait media,
>until I reached a plateau due to the material's
>limitations.
>I cooked mine at around 90? to 100?, just short
>of making the emulsion peel. Around there, lens
>resolution and Lp/mm become moot.
>s.d.
>
To grill or not to grill....
I used a lot of 4x5 HIE commercially,
particularly when asked to take flattering photos
of dumps. Some architects wanted nice pictures to
show clients of the warehouses they designed,
so... Infrared to the rescue. They were still
ugly buildings, but people didn't focus on that
as much. Also, IR was very useful for bringing
out textures in bland facades. Occasionally, IR
defined buildings better, because of the
different tonal interpretations, and the fact
that you could make blue glass curtainwall
buildings separate properly from the sky. And
nobody minded if their building glowed.
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* Henning J. Wulff
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