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Infrared with the M system

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OP Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
Re: Infrared with the M system
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R2D2 wrote:

Thanks for the great lesson Larry. I'll have to bookmark this thread!

R2

My pleasure. I've really been enjoying IR photography, and use the IR-converted M200 body much more than I thought i would. I always wanted to try IR, since I was in high school, especially for astrophotography.

Like another person in the camera club I belong to, I've found that shooting IR fundamentally has altered how I think of light and look at scenes... the full-spectrum m200 and a few IR filters come with me most of the time. There are particular scenes and types of lighting where the 'best' shot is often some kind of IR shot.

Have you ever tried IR photography? If not, the M200 is a great choice for a conversion, being small and relatively inexpensive, but still having a lot of contemporary functionalty with great IQ, and working with all native EF-M lenses which we already own.

Due to IR light focusing at different distance than visible light, often smaller apertures are desirable and even then images are a little softer in the corners with wide-angle lenses than straight visible light images. Interestingly, I've found that some cheap $20 vintage lenses are as good or better in IR than expensive contemporary lenses. Because of the challenges IR poses for lenses, the M6ii's high 32.5 MP resolution is too much, the extra resolution isn't useful.

 Larry Rexley's gear list:Larry Rexley's gear list
Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS M200 Canon EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM +21 more
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