converting to IR

[kobo]

I'm in possession of a D70 and I read an article in one of the previous outdoor photographer magazines about someone converting their D70 to an IR B&W digital camera. who or where could I go to to do that.

[hw771230]

You might want to check out this article.

http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotogra ... ution.html

At the end of the second page is a couple of companies that do the conversion. I have also seen ads in the back of OP magazines

If you do the conversion, I'm looking forward to seeing some of the photos. I have a D70 that I am looking into converting once it is replaced with a newer body.

Caleb

[hw771230]

Here is another article from this Mag.

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/cont ... sion.shtml

The author had a D70s converted. There are some companies listed on the second page of this one too.

Caleb

[Walczak Photo]

Hey Kobo,
While I do not know if this applies to your camera specifically, there is a book out called "Hacking Digital Cameras" (sorry...I forget the authors name...it was something kind of screwed up as I recall) and there was a chapter on converting digitals to IR. From what I remember reading (it's been quire a while now since I read it) for most cameras it was simply a matter of removing the IR filter from the front of the imaging chip and then adding an IR enhancing filter to the front of the lens...pretty straight forward to anyone adventurous enough to take a screwdriver to their camera! LOL!!!

I was actually going to try it with my old Olympus C-4000 last year, but I ended up selling the camera to raise money for my Canon that I bought earlier this year.

Also, from what I've read in a number of places, if you're just looking for funky and cool effects, you can just use a regular IR enhancing filter...I've seen some pics taken that way and it is pretty cool. By their very design, digitals tend to be sensative to IR anyways so depending on what you're looking to do specifically, you really may not need to take the camera in/pull the onboard filter. In my case, I wanted to do some IR astrophotography (and still do) which is why I wanted the conversion for true IR (and still do). Now that some of the 4 megapixel cameras have really come down in price used, I may pick one up later this year and try the Hacking method...I'll let ya'll know how it works if I do.

Anyways, just wanted to pass on the info!

Peace,
Jim

[kobo]

sweet thanks guys