Infrared Filter for a DSLR: I would like to try some digital black and white Infrared photography with my 72 or 77 mm lens. Not sure what filter to get for a good old black and white...

woodpecker4944 Loc: NW Missouri

I would like to try some digital black and white Infrared photography with my 72 or 77 mm lens. Not sure what filter to get for a good old black and white infrared shot as I have seen years back with film. Suggestions ?

zundapp5 Loc: Portugal

With Hoya R72 filter,(or equivalent 720nm) you capture beautiful pictures in black and white infrared, and false color with postprocessing!

artistwally Loc: Scotland

Start of with an R72 filter, try 20 seconds at F8 200 ISO(on a tripod). Once have the first images , which will be very red,convert to mono b/w then experiment with other settings to get it right.
"Things" vary depending on the camera make but initially let it go on auto-focus until you have time to experiment.
Good luck it is great fun.
Artistwally.

Chris

artistwally wrote:

Start of with an R72 filter, try 20 seconds at F8 200 ISO(on a tripod). Once have the first images , which will be very red,convert to mono b/w then experiment with other settings to get it right.
"Things" vary depending on the camera make but initially let it go on auto-focus until you have time to experiment.
Good luck it is great fun.
Artistwally.

What would it look like if you used the filter and had the monochrome/b&w setting on your camera

GPappy Loc: Finally decided to plop down, Clover, S.C.

Haven't done any in b/w but I would assume you still need to set up white balance first to let the camera know what to "assume" what white is. I take a shot of green grass and set that as my wb shot. (Do this without the ir filter) Trees then come out as white in pp. After wb is set, compose your shot, install ir filter and take shot, as you cannot see through the ir filter.

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Have had a lot of fun with my R72 - I have not done any real serious work with it but do like the results so far - just need to spend serious time & effort on IR shots in the future.
Harvey

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

woodpecker4944 wrote:

I would like to try some digital black and white Infrared photography with my 72 or 77 mm lens. Not sure what filter to get for a good old black and white infrared shot as I have seen years back with film. Suggestions ?

Hoya R72, Manual Mode, Manual Focus.

woodpecker4944 Loc: NW Missouri

Thanks everyone for the fast response. I will check out the Hoya R72. The prim camera I will be shooting with is a Nikon D80 with a Sigma 1.8, 70/200mm zoom lens. I am looking to do very little computer processing. Maybe a little enhacing and cropping, that's it.
One of our photoclub members has one of his cameras converted to infrared. It seems he is doing too much computer enhacing for my taste. I have a friend in Florida doing film infrared with no processing and as you know I would like to do it digitally. Thanks again. Bob

GPappy Loc: Finally decided to plop down, Clover, S.C.

Have you looked at the info here at UHH on IR? I'm not saavy enough on here yet to show the link, but if you use the search feature at the top of the page, it will get you there.

fishone0 Loc: Kingman AZ

I had my camera converted to infrared by litepixels and I love it. Very little post processing I just make it the image size that I want. I hated using a filter because of the time each shot has to be and of course the camra has to be on a tripod.All my infrared shots can now be handheld.No more infrared filters for me.

woodpecker4944 Loc: NW Missouri

Thanks Gpappy.
I will take a look. I would really like to try some Infrared stuff if I can without a lot of expense. Not sure how much of it I will do.
Thanks again....Bob

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

You have to be careful as to what lens you use as many will produce a "hot spot"..Don't limit yourself to just one lens. I've used the Hoya R72 & enjoyed it. I used it on a Nikon D70s. I could use it hand held in bright noon day sun as the camera has a fairly weak anti-aliasing filter. newer cameras have stronger filters & thus require longer exposure times...