Question by lsmitherene: What should my camera settings be?
I have a vivitar slr and am using sfx 200 infrared film with a deep red filter on my camera. What should all my aperture, shutter speed, etc. settings be in low, mid, and bright light?
Best answer:
Answer by Jens
There are no fixed values, as low, mid and bright light are not rigidly defined. There are just rules of thumb such as the “sunny 16” rule that you can look up on google. I don’t think this can be directly used for infrared film though. Why don’t you use your camera’s light meter?
Start without the filter in manual mode and and set an adjusted exposure according to the information in the link below (either the red filter or deep red filter entry, depending on what you have), then screw on the filter and take the shot:
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/Webfiles/2007651134552223.pdf
It’s important that you use manual mode, as otherwise the camera will change the exposure again after you screwed on the filter, hence normal exposure compensation in auto modes won’t cut it. Well…they might, but there is no way to predict how the light meter may be affected by the filter, it may be thrown off quite a lot. Also. it will be difficult to compose the shot through an IR filter 😉
What do you think? Answer below!
