New Lens Dead On Arrival
A s I mentioned in a few previous blog entries, I sent an old Panasonic camera in for service to be converted to infrared sensitivity. This will allow this particular camera to capture only monochrome infrared images rather than color images in visible light. Once I get the camera back, I'll be able to show some good examples of monochrome infrared images and more easily explain how this differs from typical black and white photography in visible light. In the meantime, I ordered a tiny pancake lens (on the camera in this lead photo) which is supposed to be good in infrared light so it would be the perfect lens for this newly converted infrared camera. Some (or perhaps most) lenses are poor for infrared photography. This particular one I ordered is reported by many photographers to be good in infrared light. Another plus is that it is a tiny lens and I wanted a small lens for this small camera that I had converted to infrared. Another plus is that it is a wider than aver