[Leica] infrared

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Take an old DSLR body and convert it to IR at Lifepixel. They change the anti aliasing filter to an IR filter, which means you can shoot a DSLR like a normal camera, unlike a filter which darkens the image in the viewfinder considerably:

https://www.lifepixel.com/?ar=65

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 27-Jan-2019, at 02:11, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
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> The Fuji X-trans cameras (XE, XT) work well with IR and no modification other than a 720nm (R72) filter.  The rub is that you need a tripod, since shutter speeds are slow (e.g. 1/5 second).  A converted camera will let you shoot hand-held.  This is for b&w.  If you are looking for color, then a modification is probably best.  I've been thinking about a conversion by kolari or lifepixel on a spare XE1 body, but I just don't shoot that much IR.  Here are a couple of unmodified Fuji examples:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/417837-1/_DSF3600bw.jpg
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/_DSF1785-Pano-Edit.jpg.html
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> Ken
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>> On 1/26/2019 12:47 PM, Steve Barbour via LUG wrote:
>> Please help. I will convert a camera for shooting  infrared. I would appreciate your advice re  the camera  of choice, dealer that is best, cost, and I recall a statement re certain cameras that do this best, even without modification.
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>> Can you help?
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>> I thank you very much.
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>> Steve  Barbour
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