infrared digital camera - the real way

Step 8 Reassemble your camera and go use it

Now that you've got the IR-blocking filter removed, and the Congo Blue filters in place, you're almost ready to start taking pictures. Reassemble your camera by doing everything up until now in reverse. You were taking pictures of all the screws you were taking out, right??

Once everything is put back together, cross your fingers and turn it on. With any luck it will power up and be ready to use. Go outside and take some pictures! Outdoor scenes with lots of trees and grass look especially cool. I took a trip to Point Reyes National Seashore and took some sweet pics, in this flickr photoset. Also a trip to the Russian Ridge open space preserve in this photset.

Thanks/props goes to Zach S. for helpful tips found on his site.

Comments

[wizzle89]

does this work at night for night vision

[372752]

No it wouldn't actually you would need a IR flashlight I have an instructables on this it's reall simple actually

[Datashifter]

I used five pieces of the Rosco 382 gel, thinking that the camera might be better at accepting IR low light situations with 5 instead of 6 pieces.  I need to test it in daylight, but from preliminary testing inside tonight, I think I maybe should have gone with six pieces.  The mod went well for my camera though (Samsung S700 Digimax).

The most difficult part for me was cutting the Rosco 382 gel to the right size - not too small, and not too big - all the while, not getting fingerprints on it!  Cotton gloves might have been handy...

Congrats on the great instructable!  Even if it probably doesn't match the disassembly of anyone else's camera, the general idea is all which is needed!

For what it is worth, my camera has zoom and autofocus, but I have not experienced any focus issues at all after removing the IR filter and installing the Rosco 382 gel.

[Hyphener]

Finally someone did a real IR camera tutorial! I did the same thing a while ago but used just 2 layers of that blacked out film negative from the end of those negative strips, that can make the whole process free. Unfortunately with old, bad digital cameras it is hard to set the white balance well enough so we are stuck with taking these pink tinted or pink changed to B/W photos, still, they look awesome

[subzerofun]

thanks for this! i have tried using the lee filter gel in front of the lens, but then i need exposure times up to 30sek (at a good iso-setting). so this looks like a really good alternative way for getting IR-pictures! i hope that i won´t destroy my old kodak...

[ketan7s]

Hey, can this effect be just made with the help of adding filters in the front of the camera? My canon G9 does this cool color tricks through its vast settings. But anyway, I think your modification surely does catch great images in low light conditions due to IR only introduction. does it?

[SpinWard]

Oh my, what beautiful pictures! Like you were on another planet! Very good instructable. I'd love to try this one and tell my photographer friend about it!