Which camera for an IR conversion

[usayit]

I surmise that a camera with 650mm filter on sensor and a 850nm filter on lens pretty much works the same as a full spectrum camera with just a 850nm filter on lens. Is that correct?

 

[Petrochemist]

Ya, full spectrum means you are only removing the IR "cut" filter in front of the sensor and replacing it with "clear" glass.

Actually a true full spectrum conversion uses quartz rather than glass, glass blocks UV reasonably well.
I rather suspect mine was done with glass though - which is better described as a 2 spectrum conversion. but without specialist lenses it makes little real difference.

 

[Petrochemist]

I surmise that a camera with 650mm filter on sensor and a 850nm filter on lens pretty much works the same as a full spectrum camera with just a 850nm filter on lens. Is that correct?

Yes, but a 650 conversion with a 590 filter is still a 650.

 

[usayit]

Yes, but a 650 conversion with a 590 filter is still a 650.

So a good middle ground would be to go with a 650nm filter (or similar) conversion on-sensor filter for false color and keep a 720nm (or similar) on-lens filter for B&W conversions.

 

[MetilHed]

How about the cheaply priced pl6? $299 with two lenses


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Where (pl6+2 lens @$299) ?
Thanks

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[Microbial]

I had lots of similar questions about IR when I wanted to give it a go. I simply bought the first M43 IR camera I could find secondhand. It is a G1 and had been owned by a pro (his gallery here: Photography by Gerard McCarthy).

My advice would be not to worry too much about what camera to use because the lens used seems to make more of a difference to the output than the camera does, and also IR is a very big step away from visible light photography and until you start doing it and experimenting and finding out about it you won't know what you need.


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[PakkyT]

also IR is a very big step away from visible light photography and until you start doing it and experimenting and finding out about it you won't know what you need.

Agreed. Also IR shooting generally takes a lot more editing on the computer than normal. Not to mean you have to do a lot of editing to each photo, but that you have to do at least a little bit of tweaking at a minimum to every photo you take. Very rarely do you get a photo straight out of the camera that "ready" for display. Where a normal photo you might be able to get away with posting it as is out of the camera, most IR photos come out a bit flat and need a bit of punching up to something with a bit more "wow".