"Derek Fountain" wrote in message
reenews.net...
DIMi is running an infrared photography competition sponsored by
MaxMax.com with monthly IR filter prizes and a grand
prize of a digital camera conversion to IR mode, worth US$450.

Erm, presumably you need an IR camera in order to take part in the
competition, and so the grand prize would, kind of by definition, be
worthless to its winner?

Not necessarily so. Many digital cameras can take IR pictures using the
relevant filters. You can check if your digital camera can detect IR light
by shining the TV remote towards the camera lens. When the remote is "on"
you should see the glow from the sender when you look at it through the VF.
However, a specialist IR conversion unit or dedicated camera would be quite
a bonus.

Bill