  Infrared J and H surface photometry are carried out for nearby 12 galaxies
whose distances have been accurately measured via HST Cepheid observations.
Using the total, isophotal, and surface-photometric aperture magnitudes we
calibrate the infrared luminosity-line width relation (IRTF). It is found that
IRTF changes its slope at log W_{20}^c=2.45 in all the examined magnitude
systems. The apparent scatter of IRTF is not significantly reduced when surface
photometric magnitudes are used instead of the conventionally used synthetic
aperture magnitude H_{-0.5}. It is also shown that the color (I-H)_T of the
nearby calibrator galaxies is redder by 0.2mag than the Coma cluster galaxies,
but such a trend is not clearly visible for the Ursa Major mostly because of
poor statistics. The color offset of the Coma is analogous to that previously
found in I_T-H_{-0.5}. From the present calibration of H-band IRTF, we obtain
the distance to the Coma cluster to be m-M=34.94 +/- 0.13mag, where no account
is taken of the I-H color problem. Using the CMB-rest recession velocity of the
Coma cluster we obtain H_0=73 +/- 4 km/s/Mpc.
