Geekery...

[miss_squiddy]

Anyone got any good tips on Infra-red photography? I'm taking photos of a twighlight iron pour on Monday and I've never tried IR film before. However, I do already know that my good camera will fog the film up - it says so in the manual. *sigh*

wintrmute: I know you've done some in the past - how do you think it will work with extreme temperatures?

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[orkney-rob.livejournal.com]

Righty - easy solution then! Go and get yourself an old, fully mechanical, film SLR. Will be cheap as chips since no one wants them anymore and I am sure you can find something in Cardiff! You can get an Olympus OM10 plus 50mm lens for £60 easilly, but should be able to find a lot of alternatives much, much cheaper. Basically so long as it has a mechanical film counter you are laughing!

Then purchase an IR filter to pop on the end of the lens and you are away! It's a lot of fun - used to play with Ilford IR film quite a lot in the dim and distant past (and I still have an old fully mechanical Nikkormat incase the urge takes me again!)

Film is ace... but I have defected now and indulged in a horribly expensive digital SLR instead on the grounds that I was starting to get through far too much film and spending far too many hours scanning it all in once it came back from the processors!!!! Oh aye, for developing... if you aren't doing it yourself, try Peak Imaging in Sheffield (they are on t'interweb and everything). Very good service....

[miss_squiddy]

Got one, got one and know a place :D
What I really want to know is whether the extreme heat of the furnace and the cold of the air will be too much and blank out all the detail. And what makes for good effects?

[arachne.livejournal.com]

I have to ask (and feel free to not answer, or tell me to piss off...) are you really, actually from Orkney?

[orkney-rob.livejournal.com]

From Hoy ;-)

And from a very, very long line of Orcadians as well... it's an ace place, and Rackwick will always be my spirtual home (though the croft was actually on the other side of the island overlooking Scapa Flow, but that got sold off a back in the late 80's.