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I am a member of a worldwide manual focus photography group. Manual Focus Lenses Website Today I ran across a thread there that reminded me of something I tried a few years ago. I read a lot of information on the Internet regarding IR photography. At the time, the ‘hot’ item was a Nikon 950 (2.11 mp) with the IR filter removed and replaced with an UV filter. I did the modification myself and promptly lost interest for some reason or another. I seem to remember I took a few pics in the Winter and never picked the camera up again. Also, it was a battery hog, penlights seemed to last about 2 hours or so.
Forward to today, I dug into an old storage tote under the desk and found the 950. I had forgotten the camera had live view! I took a couple of pictures out my front door. The ground is snow covered and the temperature around 30F.
I set the camera to black and white + manual focus as the UV filter did not exactly match the IR filter for auto focus. The picture that looks almost normal was taken through a visible light blocking filter (B&W F-PRO 093 IR). To prove to myself that the image I was seeing was not simply UV leakage from the replacement filter material from Edmunds Scientific, I placed an IR blocking filter (Tiffen Hot Mirror) along with the B&W filter and aimed so the Sun was in the framing. It appears all I got was UV from the setting Sun seem through the tree branches. No post processing at all except the re-size to 1024 wide.
It does not seem to be worth the effort in the Winter due to the lack of any contrasting IR reflectors and absorbers. I hope I don’t forget about the camera again this Spring.
