…and it turned out pretty cool!
I found out that I could get a basic IR conversion by removing my high pass/IR light filter (correct me on the terminology if I’m wrong, I truly have no idea what I’m doing) from in front of my sensor.
I’ve had a little compact Fujifilm (jpeg only) point and shoot/bridge camera for years now, and have simply stropped using it. Went down a shallow rabbit hole last night, got inspired, and promptly removed the glass filter. I don’t believe I have a great infrared shooter now, but it does seem to do it a bit. This is an test shot from my driveway.
I’m looking forward to taking this out in the proper daylight some time soon.
The image quality won’t ever be great, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
And I think you should have fun with this too:
Nice, welcome to the club! My first infrared camera was a similar point-and-shoot hack job. If you’ve removed the glass in front of your sensor this could have included any of the following (depending on the camera)
The high pass (anti-aliasing) filter
The infrared cut filter (which blocks IR light)
The UV filter (which blocks UV light)
If you’ve removed both of the last two without adding any other filter to the camera, what you have is a “full spectrum” conversion (i.e. the camera is now sensitive to both UV and infrared light, as well as visible light). What I did on my infrared hack was to glue a step up filter ring to the front of my camera, so that I could add an infrared filter to block visible and UV light, then bought a cheap set of filters to experiment with.
I’m always lost when it comes to infrared photography or other techniques which are leading to completely off colours. So this time I tried something different:
