"Trying to stay on task...

...is liking trying to stay on your mother!"

Fujifilm IS-1 First Outing!

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I got my IS-1 about an hour before I left for Poly First Wednesday. Naturally I had already read the entire manual online, so I was able to stumble through these shots. The camera is factory sensitive for both visible light and Near Infrared, and examples of both are in this set. The IR-cut filter allowing me to take only visible light pictures arrives tomorrow.

Overall I'm pretty impressed so far. The camera seems to be everything I was hoping it would be, with a very few exceptions, and I'm already getting terrific shots in fairly bad conditions.

I ran out of battery power two blocks from Elysium. :)

Next time...

New Camera Whining!

...so my MaxMax X-Nite CC1 IR blocking filter came today. I need this kind of filter to take normal, visible-light pictures with my new Fujifilm IS-1. However, instead of being clear, it has a very strong blue tint. If you look a the color curve, which I evidently didn't do before I bought it, you can see that it starts attenuating at 500nm, which is just between blue and green, and slopes down at almost 45 degrees to the cutoff at 700. This despite the fact that it's marketed specifically as a hot mirror replacement for cameras with the hot mirror removed. What does this mean?

The Short Version is that the filter I need to make my camera *not* see glowing red halos on everything makes the picture seem blue instead, so I had to buy a more expensive one that doesn't do this. In the process I discovered a few "features" of my camera that inspire hatred and avarice.

For the Long Version, see below.

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