The little camera that could(IR). by mrmadmikie

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 04, 2007

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Being really really bored and not happy with the fuzzy infrared pictures I was getting because of long exposure times, I decided to take apart my fuji to see if it had one of those easily removable IR screens. Easily removed but it was glued to a gasket surrounding the image sensor, so it turned out to be a one way conversion. After taking it apart 3 times to get all the connections seated properly and recoving from 3 bouts of "oh boy, I blew something up" it powered up and the lcd on the back was showing live images through the hoya r72 filter. whewwww. And it doesn't appear that I added any noticable dust specs. This pic shows some of the potential of the camera, it was a very windy cloudless day(remnants of tropical storm Barry) and is handheld with a wratten 87 filter. All autofocus and white balancing functions still work. Plus it has live preview. Noise is still troublesome even at iso 64. This picture is a composite of a noise reduced copy(sky only) and a copy without noise reduction(all the trees). The noise reduction was badly blurring the detail of the pine needles. Now its on to IR waterdrop and soapbubble pics. :) Mike