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Infrared shooting or summer-like winter
I could photograph landscapes only after I had bought a real IR-filter of B&H ¹ 92 company. Similar Cokin filters have appeared in our shops recently. They are completely black and opaque for visible rays.
The tool kit for day time shooting was finally established. IR-filter is screwed on the thread of the camera lens, a metal Cokin adapter ring is screwed into the IR-filter; several filters can be put into the adapter. At first I put a ring polarization device. It not only puts away two apertures but is sometimes used for its direct intended purpose: it blanks out unwanted glare. I put one or two neutrally-grey filters over the polarization device. I have both fourfold and eightfold filters for bright sunny days.
This construction is exotic and not very handy: adapter cashes the picture slightly (darkens the shot’s angles), each filter itself impairs focus; moreover the filters inevitably become covered with dust. Combating of the dust leads to small scratches on the delicate plastic of Kokin plates. These scratches impair the file focus still more. This is a set of “delights”. Nevertheless I love this Sony camera. It has one irrefutable advantage: it is indispensable. I don’t know any more cameras having operating reportage IR-mode.
Sony, like any woman, is absolutely unpredictable: I can never guess how my hero’s clothes will look in the black-and-white picture. For example, it easily turns black chimers of clergymen into white or grey (See photo 3).
3. “Nuns” from the photonovel about Raif cloister. The nuns were photographed in day time near a window, they were brightened with the day light only. P Mode, exposure correction -1. IR-filter and neutral 8x are put on the lens. Camera slightly dyed the bleached cassocks of the nuns in lilac colour. I liked it and decided not to change anything.
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