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Hi, I’m a retired Physician living in the greater Boston (MA) area of the U.S.
My initial interest was in Underwater (U/W) photography. I didn’t purchase a [film] SLR till 1995; it was a Minolta Maxxum 400si and I used it, along with a 600si I subsequently bought, for landscape photography and of my family. The lenses I purchased for these two cameras and still own are: Sigma 18-35mm zoom, 50mm Macro, 105mm Macro; Minolta 200mm f/2.8 and its mated 1.4X Teleconverter. Oh, somewhere along the way, I got a few Lensbaby toys. I trust it is not unreasonable for me to list some of my photographic equipment here in case a member reading this is interested in my experience with any item.
I waited till Sony finally debuted their first digital ILC/SLR in 2006, the A100. A year later, I was diagnosed with Parkinson disease, rendering my choice of Minolta 12 years before (as opposed to Canon, Nikon, Pentax, etc.,) wise, in retrospect, given Sony’s built-in Image Stabilization (courtesy of Minolta
.) So then after I bought Sony's dSLT A55 in 2010, I had the A-100 converted to "color Infrared"; specifically, the internal hot mirror filter was replaced with a 650 nm long-pass filter. SO began my adventures into Multispectral Photography (MSP).
Following my A55's "premature demise," I bought a used Sony A65 in 2016 and brought it with my converted A100 on my trip to Switzerland later that year. Additional A-mount lenses I had acquired (and still own,) for these APS-C cameras include: Sony 18-70mm zoom, 75-300mm zoom; and later, a Sony 16-50mm f/2.8 zoom & a Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 zoom.
Meanwhile, back in 2014, I bought my first mirrorless camera, the a6000. Believe it or not, I initially felt deceived by Sony, though I doubt few came away with the same impression I did of Sony's advertising. Perhaps I had just made a foolish assumption that since Sony’s A-mount cameras had IS built-in, so too would this E-mount camera. One may recall that at that time, there were no inexpensive telephoto OSS lenses available. Instead of buying the kit lens, the PZ 16-50 mm, I initially opted for two, the 16mm f/2.8 and 35mm f/1.8 OSS lenses.
I continued doing my own landscape photography and after returning to my hometown some 35 years after leaving, I came across some articles touting the advantages of mirrorless (over dSLR/DSLT) cameras for IR photography. So by late fall of 2017, I purchased via one of the leading conversion services in the U.S. another brand new Sony a6000, but converted to Full Spectrum along with another Sony lens that is not on their IR Hotspot Lens list, the 18-55mm OSS. Now that I had an FS camera, I bought a number of external IR filters and practiced with them, primarily on landscapes, friends, and various materials. In the summer of 2018, instead of the cameras I brought along two years before, I instead took with me both of my lighter weight a6000s.
As this introduction is getting rather long, I may write another time about my experiences delving into the fields of both Thermal and Ultraviolet photography, which brings me to MY QUESTION for the Membership: Who else is interested in Multispectral (or just, say, IR or UV,) Photography?
My initial interest was in Underwater (U/W) photography. I didn’t purchase a [film] SLR till 1995; it was a Minolta Maxxum 400si and I used it, along with a 600si I subsequently bought, for landscape photography and of my family. The lenses I purchased for these two cameras and still own are: Sigma 18-35mm zoom, 50mm Macro, 105mm Macro; Minolta 200mm f/2.8 and its mated 1.4X Teleconverter. Oh, somewhere along the way, I got a few Lensbaby toys. I trust it is not unreasonable for me to list some of my photographic equipment here in case a member reading this is interested in my experience with any item.
I waited till Sony finally debuted their first digital ILC/SLR in 2006, the A100. A year later, I was diagnosed with Parkinson disease, rendering my choice of Minolta 12 years before (as opposed to Canon, Nikon, Pentax, etc.,) wise, in retrospect, given Sony’s built-in Image Stabilization (courtesy of Minolta
.) So then after I bought Sony's dSLT A55 in 2010, I had the A-100 converted to "color Infrared"; specifically, the internal hot mirror filter was replaced with a 650 nm long-pass filter. SO began my adventures into Multispectral Photography (MSP).Following my A55's "premature demise," I bought a used Sony A65 in 2016 and brought it with my converted A100 on my trip to Switzerland later that year. Additional A-mount lenses I had acquired (and still own,) for these APS-C cameras include: Sony 18-70mm zoom, 75-300mm zoom; and later, a Sony 16-50mm f/2.8 zoom & a Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 zoom.
Meanwhile, back in 2014, I bought my first mirrorless camera, the a6000. Believe it or not, I initially felt deceived by Sony, though I doubt few came away with the same impression I did of Sony's advertising. Perhaps I had just made a foolish assumption that since Sony’s A-mount cameras had IS built-in, so too would this E-mount camera. One may recall that at that time, there were no inexpensive telephoto OSS lenses available. Instead of buying the kit lens, the PZ 16-50 mm, I initially opted for two, the 16mm f/2.8 and 35mm f/1.8 OSS lenses.
I continued doing my own landscape photography and after returning to my hometown some 35 years after leaving, I came across some articles touting the advantages of mirrorless (over dSLR/DSLT) cameras for IR photography. So by late fall of 2017, I purchased via one of the leading conversion services in the U.S. another brand new Sony a6000, but converted to Full Spectrum along with another Sony lens that is not on their IR Hotspot Lens list, the 18-55mm OSS. Now that I had an FS camera, I bought a number of external IR filters and practiced with them, primarily on landscapes, friends, and various materials. In the summer of 2018, instead of the cameras I brought along two years before, I instead took with me both of my lighter weight a6000s.
As this introduction is getting rather long, I may write another time about my experiences delving into the fields of both Thermal and Ultraviolet photography, which brings me to MY QUESTION for the Membership: Who else is interested in Multispectral (or just, say, IR or UV,) Photography?
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.) It's not so much any apparent predilection one might think I have for using initials or acronyms (or as I pejoratively refer to on a general-type forum as an "alphabet soup" when the poster does not define them); rather, I sometimes get long-winded in my endeavor (please pardon my use of American spelling habits,) to both inquire and convey specific information, and it saves me time (especially when typing on teeny-weeny keyboards.)
