M10R IR - Advice and Experience?

[AJYan]

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Apologies if this was asked here already…..

 I’m receiving an M10R next week and want to shoot some IR with it. Most likely with a 720nm filyer.

Can you meter successfully? Do you need to be in Live View so you can see what the sensor is seeing? What settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed) do you normally shoot at? 
thanks for your help.

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[jaapv]

11 hours ago, AJYan said:

Apologies if this was asked here already…..

 I’m receiving an M10R next week and want to shoot some IR with it. Most likely with a 720nm filyer.

Can you meter successfully? Do you need to be in Live View so you can see what the sensor is seeing? What settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed) do you normally shoot at? 
thanks for your help.

The point is that you won’t see anything in LV or through the EVF but the optical viewfinder will be unimpaired. The main reason for using an RF camera for IR. 

[AJYan]

Thank you!

[AJYan]

As it turns out, with an R72 (720nm) filter, at ISO 1600 or higher, I do see images in the EVF and/or LV. I've successfully shot at 1600, aperture priority, f/2.8 to about f/8 depending on the light. I even got semi-useful images at ISO100, but they were obviously under exposed, by about 5 stops. The M10R sensor captures shadow detail beautifully, so I was able to recover those ISO100 shots. There is still a bit of guess work, but as I learn more, I should get better at estimating what the exposure should be. For now, I will bracket just to be sure.