Infrared test The Nikon D200 is a lovely camera to use and handle. For IR photography, the light meter on the D200 is much more sensitive than the sensor is, and the sensor has a very effective IR blocking filter. This means long exposures, though the results are stunning. Full sun exposure times of 15 …
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Infrared test Below are 100% detail shots showing the noise in infrared shots taken with the Nikon D200 at varying ISO settings. Here I used the green channel as being most indicative of the noise: 100ISO 200ISO 400ISO 800ISO 1600ISO 3200ISO As you can see, noise is very well controlled through 800ISO. In all cases …
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Infrared test The C-7070 is a very nice camera to handle, though a little slow writing RAW files. For IR work it offers the benefit of an optical viewfinder that is unaffected by the mounted IR filter. Initial testing has begun with this camera. Noise is low at 80ISO but the camera’s IR blocking filter …
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Infrared test The Olympus Camedia C-7070 offers only a limited range of sensitivity settings: 80, 100, 200 and 400 ISO. Noise is well controlled at all these settings, especially with noise reduction turned on.ISO80 Red Green Blue ISO100 Red Green Blue ISO200 Red Green Blue ISO400 Red Green Blue
Infrared test. The Canon 350D is my latest camera (owned, rather than on loan for review), so I was very curious to see what its IR performance would be. This RAW shot was taken at 1.6 second and f5.6 at 100ISO Red only Green Blue Noise is reasonably high with this camera and shooting in …
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Infrared test In this part of the 350D test I show many more images captured with the 350D using the Hoya R72 filter. But first, here are 100% detail crops of the same image taken at varying ISO settings. The scene is that from the image above: 100ISO 200ISO 400ISO 800ISO 1600ISO Ok, now below …
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Infrared Test More infrared pictures taken with the Canon 350D digital camera: Depending on the ISO setting you use and which channel you convert to mono from, I found I could get anything from a quite painterly result to a nice, crisp IR photograph (with a bit of appropriate sharpening). This is all hard to …
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Infrared test. The Sony R1 is a lovely camera with a great zoom range (24-120mm), good handling and great design features. It is also quite IR sensitive, has low noise and makes a great IR camera. Exposure was 1/5 second at f4 and 160ISO Red channel only Green Blue The following images are 100% sections …
Infrared test continued. The following are 100% sections of the red channel of images taken at different ISO settings: 200ISO 400ISO 800ISO 1600ISO 3200ISO More shots, usually using just the red channel: All told I am very impressed with the R1 as an IR camera. Remember you are only seeing lowres images on the web. …
Infrared test. The Nikon D50 is a pretty good camera for shooting IR. The RAW camera image. Exposure was 1/15 second at f3.5 and 200ISO, showing good IR sensitivity. Auto exposure was used. Greyscale conversion Red channel only Green channel only Blue channel only Below are 100% sections of the image: Red Green Blue In …