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I stuck one of these in a "Portrait" thread last night, and it caused me to think that a little something involving infrared (and UV, but ick!) portraiture might be fun here, so I'll kick it off. These were all shot in 720nm infrared. This was what is technically known as a happy accident...

There are two things that Fuji could easily make (or, for that matter, a third party, with Fuji in mind) which would make life easier for us. The first is an X-E battery pack/grip. The camera is just too small for grownups to hold. I have grips for both of my X-E2s and for my X-Pro1, and...

Here are a few made with a cheap 720nm filter stuck on a Fuji X100. They're OOC but for auto white balance and channel swap, done in the GIMP. I particularly like the shadow in the last one. It also seems to me that angle of incidence is important in infrared, with vignetting being the...

If things go according to plan, I'll be sending my 720nm X-E2 off to Kolari this week to get made into a 590nm camera. And as I go through the options, I see that there are three levels of filter offered: an "industry standard uncoated filter" IR conversion, an IR conversion that is said to have...

Sometimes I think one of the delights of infrared color is that it can bring a subtlety of hues not found often elsewhere. Not quite pastel but certainly not loud. Here's a picture I made last week that kind of illustrates the point, I believe.

Greetings, folks . . . I have an issue cleaning an X-E2 sensor (well, the filter over the sensor, of course). There are some dust spots that nothing I've tried will remove. I've been through a 12-pack of sensor swabs and wet cleaning -- no joy. I hate to ship the camera to have it cleaned, in...

The Meike 25mm f1.8 arrived about an hour ago, and the first thing was to test it to see how well it did infrared photography. The answer is not perfectly but well enough to be entirely usable. The short version: it's just fine in infrared color up to f5.6, and in black-and-white up to f8 and...

The 18-135mm Fuji zoom is reputed to be an excellent lens for shooting infrared. Indeed, that's the reason I purchased one. Many Fuji lenses suffer from fairly bad to truly awful "hotspots" that render them unusable in infrared photography, which is too bad, because Fuji bodies are readily...

Greetings, everybody . . . I shoot a lot of infrared with my Kolari-converted X-E2 (720nm native, but I use an 850nm filter much of the time). And most of my Fuji lenses have from annoying to unbearable hotspots. Even the 18-135, which I got specifically for IR because it was said to be...

So the nice man in the big brown truck came by and left me a nice new X20, which I've set up and played with just a bit. What I've learned so far: -- If you are switching from an X10 and do not want a conflict in filenames, format an SD card (in either camera), put it in the X10 and take a...

Until camera makers give us a lot more control over the firmware than we have now (letting us, for instance, select which fields from the EXIF standard we'd like to include -- the copyright field, for instance, is one I'd like to have available, but can now invoke it in Fuji-made pictures only...

Not Fuji-specific, but certainly of interest: there's a nice explanation and rundown on the relative speeds of SD cards in this article in the UK's PC Pro publication: PC Pro Magazine | Subscription website Just in case anyone would like to look at it. I found it pretty interesting.

The last semi-reliable rumor I heard was Feb. 28 -- but that perhaps only in Japan. Any new or better information or, absent that, truly imaginative theories?

Ah, to have loads and loads of money. Alas, I don't. I do have and love both the X10 and the X100, so there was a bit of anguish when it got announced that both would get upgraded. I can (barely) afford to upgrade one, and it will be the X20 -- and would be if they were the same price -- and...