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Photography by Infrared: Its Principles and Applications (Wiley series on photographic science & technology & the graphic arts)

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This book, the most comprehensive reference work on infrared photography, is unfortunately out of print. There's more solid information in this book than in all the pretty coffee-table books on IR photography put together.

Even the most recent edition, 1978, has some outdated data on specific films, but the laws of physics haven't changed, so Gibson's extremely detailed explanations of various phenomena and applications of infrared photography are still as valid as they were originally.

This book really cries out for a new edition, updated with information on digital infrared photography. But for now, if you can only have one book on infrared, this is the one to get.

This book refers mostly to forensic, industrial and medical uses for infrared photography. Obviously a 31 year old textbook's references to specific emulsions are out of date. Even with those caveats it is an interesting book and nuggets of worthwhile info may be gleaned from its pages. I have to remember that not all photographers are in the fine art category and for the categories listed above this book is easily worth the money. Just think college textbook rather than "Joy Of Photography" and you will do fine.