Cameras good for IR shooting

lulalake

Hi, IR Shooters.

You may know that I have a Yahoo IR group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Infrared_Photography/

Yesterday we started a database of cameras that members use for IR shooting and these are the cameras added so for as either good/bad or indifferent IR cameras:

Canon A-95

Canon EOS 1

Canon G1

EOS 300D

Kodak DC4800

Nikon CoolPix 950

NIKON D70

Olympus C-2000

Olympus C-2020Z

Olympus C-4000

OLYMPUS C5060

Olympus C-730

Olympus C-750

Olympus C-8080

Pentax *ist DS

Sony F707

Sony F717

Sony F828

Sony Mavica FD-200



I was very surprised to find so many Olympus cameras in the mix and even a Kodak. All of these have been reported as at least acceptable except the EOS 300D (without modification).

Interesting!

Jules

gus

Interesting post for those that may have been wondering about their own camera.

Just as some info ..if you want to see if your own camera can do it just aim a TV or any lounge room remote at the camera & see if you can see its light on the LCD.

Red Bull

If you can see the infared pulse from the remote, how would you go about IR shooting? Would you just go pickup an infared filter? I have a Powershot A80 and I can see infared pulses from remotes.

Also, what filter would I use for an A80? I saw one on Adorama and it had a number by it. It said #099. There were others that were #093 and #092. Which one would I get. (If this is the type to get)

Here's the link http://www.adorama.com/BW52IR099.html

lulalake

Red Bull wrote:

If you can see the infared pulse from the remote, how would you go about IR shooting? Would you just go pickup an infared filter? I have a Powershot A80 and I can see infared pulses from remotes.

Also, what filter would I use for an A80? I saw one on Adorama and it had a number by it. It said #099. There were others that were #093 and #092. Which one would I get. (If this is the type to get)

Here's the link http://www.adorama.com/BW52IR099.html

Yeah it probably will work. The standard "workhorse" IR filter is a HoyaR72, I always recommend those filters.

Expect long exposures, 1/2sec and more in bright sunlight, tripod recommended.

Google infrared photography, there is tons of data about what you can expect.

Cheers and if you do venture into the dark side, please join up and share your data on the IR database. There are no reports from the A80 there yet.

Thanks

Jules

Matthew Saville

lulalake wrote:

Yeah it probably will work. The standard "workhorse" IR filter is a HoyaR72, I always recommend those filters.

Expect long exposures, 1/2sec and more in bright sunlight, tripod recommended.

Google infrared photography, there is tons of data about what you can expect.

Cheers and if you do venture into the dark side, please join up and share your data on the IR database. There are no reports from the A80 there yet.

Thanks

Jules

And then of course, for those who have an extra D70 laying around and extra guts: (hopefully not laying around though)

http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/d70/ircut.htm

Hehehehehe...

Take care,
-Matt-