Efke ir820 (120, 25 iso) user-review
written by vicuna
on August 2nd, 2008
, 8 comments
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The magic touch of infrared: I was always fascinated by the infrared pictures I could see and wanted to try by myself. I put a roll of Efke 820ir in my Rolleiflex Automat, took a tripod and went shooting in a beautiful park full of trees and with a great sun!
I knew that for infrared shooting there’s a need to put a dark red filter on the lens and have a tripod for long exposure times. So I measured the light at 25 asa (without the filter) and shot always around 3-5 seconds. I developped it at 100 asa value and when I saw the pics, I found them great, even if there wasn’t the “magic” infrared" effect of white trees and black sky… I asked myself what I did wrong and noticed that my red filter wasn’t dark enough to filter the normal colors and have only infrared ones…
But even if it was more b&w as real infrared, the shots had something special what you can’t have with a normal b&w film…. Deep contrast, great depth of field ans a kind of special mood, that’s the Efke 820ir with a normal red filter…
So I bought a infrared filter (Hoya R72) and I will try again to have this magical infared shots….
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