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Experimenting with digital camera and the infra-visible light spectrum

 Over the years I have owned and broken many digital cameras.  Mostly point and shoot simple versions burt a shame none the less.

  • Broken displays (2)-dropped at Disney and broken in back pocket
  • Burnt out power sources (1)- placing batteries backward in the camera 
  • Obsolete media (1)-floppy disk camera
  • Jammed lens motor (1)
I always feel bad having broken the tech and have horded the damaged goods in some cases for years. Alas at some point I do need to toss the stuff out; or do I? I stumbled upon an Instructable to convert crappy old digital camera into an IR or Near-IR camera. 

Digital photo as captured to SD card- no digital manipulation or changes
Finally a way to make use of the Hoard or broken and obsolete digital cameras...
the patient was my Canon PowerShot A 400 with a cracked display

I figured that not having a display would also be a throwback to the predigital days when we took our pictures without the ability to preview the results only using a view finder. Fortunately, I always bought cameras with real viewfinders.
TV remote pictured using the new filter- the IR control light is clearly visible
I followed the instructions in the instructable to disassemble the camera and remove the IR-UV filter and replace it with something to block the visible light. Different instructables called for using old floppy disks while others recommended using real filter elements in Congo Blue; I opted for the method of using squares of old over-exposed film negatives. Since exposed film negatives are so effective at blocking the visible light when developing film pictures I figured it should work well enough for me. I made my filter using three layers negatives.

Same image as above just flipped for the sign readability and rinsed through GIMP to turn down the purple coloring

Mo Ansel Adams, but the effect lends a little bit more interest  to the pictures; now I just need to learn composition

Not sure if these would look any different if I took the pictures color and shopped the color out, but hey it's new to me...



Royal Oak Bus Terminal

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