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Old September 25th 08, 11:12 PM posted to rec.photo.digital,rec.photo.digital.point+shoot
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Default Infrared photography

In article , bino
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The problem is that you won't see an IR picture per se, as the image
requires post processing to be anything but a dark red image. If your
camera has a B&W mode, that would be helpful, but the image will still
require post processing.


false.


You got some facts jackass? Experience? I've shot IR film and IR digital.
The red filter makes the color sensor see red. Period.


except that the blue pixels also pass infrared light and depending on
the camera, the white balance, the strength of the infrared filter and
the raw processing, the results can be virtually anything.

i've used a couple of digital cameras for infrared and modified one of
them myself. none of them produce red images out of the camera. on
the camera's lcd screen and the jpegs they produce, the result is b/w.


if anything, there's a mild greenish cast, perhaps because the camera
is boosting green due to the weak response of the green pixels with
infrared light. the very same image when shot raw and processed via
adobe camera raw has an entirely different appearance than with nikon
or canon's software.

saying that it will always be red is simply false.