The result show.

( Rolleicord Vb, Xenar 75mm F3.5, Infrarot filter, Efke IR820 )




For those who expected too much from the word “result show”, I have to apologize. It is not like “Mr. John Doe who kindly wrote a comment in this log won the prize”.

The infrared I tried the other day under scorching Alabama summer has come back from processing. I would like to show you here how it came out.

The film was Efke IR 820. I put this film in my good old Rolleicord Vb with infrarot filter on. The ISO setting of my lightmeter was 3. Even with this extremely low ISO setting, I ended up with lot of underexposed shots. It seems to be better off with 2more steps over exposed. My slow style of photographing is becoming even slower. It sounds against the trend. But I am very happy to be an odd guy.

The biggest problem, I think, of this film is that its grain is not suitable for flathead scanner. I don’t meant to make an excuse, but the actual result is much better than you can see on the computer screen.

Obviously, infrared light is not visible to our eyes. In addition, photo lightmeters don’t sense infrared, either. What you read on your lightmeter is actually just a guide. You are guessing the exposure from the lightmeter readings. No wonder it is not easy. I need a lot practice and need to find out from the hard way.

No doubt infrared photography will be another strong armamentarium for my photography.

(Japanese translation)