Anyone happen to convert a GFX-50 to black and white IR and have samples to upload to this thread?
Would LOVE to see what files look like in IR...would be a stunning landscape camera.
Long shot...but thought I'd ask as this forum has members across the spectrum of gear, budgets, and abilities. Gotta be someone that has a GFX converted to IR...assuming it can be done?
Winter seems to be in constant motion here. A bit over a week ago we got a sudden plunge in temperature and then it began to warm up again and strongs winds blew for few days. This in turn results in funky chunks of ice floating around and onto the shores nearby. So, time to take out the new GF30mm.
From the last weekend in the middle of the night. I did a focus stack too but liked this one more where the lens if focused at the chunks of ice nearby lit by the moonshine.
And then a focus stack from last saturday:
I forgot my ND-filters at home. Well, not the 62mm ones which the GF50mm uses :/ GF30mm lens uses 58mm filters. It wasn't so bad without ultra smooth water surface I guess. Looks kind of organic this way.
GF30mm seems to have a bit of amplified field curvature at minimum focus distance compared to mid/far distances. So, it is good to check how it affects your own shooting style.
Well, yeah, that nightshot was a bit nasty. Winds gusts reached 20-25 meters per second speeds and big waves were contantly hitting the shoreline. OFC, the waves were flattened by the 4min exposures required to get some light on the foreground. Optimal exposure for the foreground would have been about 16 - 30 minutes. I had to push the tripod against the rocks there to keep it in place.
GF30 got its share of cold slush quite a many times. As the waves crashed against beach rocks, they created splashes containing wet snow and fine chunks of partially melted ice. I had polarizer attached to keep the front lens clean and to tame some reflections.
Beautiful. White snow + light = bliss. I was not so lucky last weekend when the chunks of ice at nearby beach had the most interesting shapes. They were gone for good in just one day during which the light was dull and flat.
Now that is some thick bushy and frozen forest scene. It could be from a nearby forest here in Finland as well.
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Bump! More winter stuff. This time a blue moment late in the evening before it gets dark.
50R + GF30mm + CPL + ND1000 filters. 9x60sec focus stack. I had to add +0.1EV to each successsive frame as the light faded while the bracketing pushed forward.
