--- Tom Purdum <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I recently joined this list (today) and was looking > through the archives for info on IR and pinhole > photography, but I could not find any. > Does anybody have any basic starting points or > suggestions?
Tom - I shoot Infrared Pinhole all the time (see my Web page). Have you shot 4X5 before? Assuming that you have, pretty much everything is the same with two exceptions. The first is that you need to wear gloves when loading the film into the holders. This is because the oil from your hands will leave fingerprints on your negative. This cannot be reversed. The other is that you need to make sure that your slides are infrared opaque. You can check for this by noting five raised dots in the area where you pull the slide from its holder. If there are not five raised dots there then they may not be okay to use. Oh yeah, there are some bellows that are not IR opaque. I use an old Crown Graphic (in addition to a number of other homemade devices) and that's okay. I believe that Wisner bellows may have problems. Testing is always a good thing. Cheers - george ===== Handmade Photographic Images http://members.home.net/hmpi/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
