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Perils of Infrared Photography

Started Jun 24, 2016 | Discussions thread
Taurus43 Regular Member • Posts: 447
Re: Perils of Infrared Photography

I've just come across this thread and having read it, it strikes me that most of the arguments have been around the performance of converted cameras. I think it's important to recognise that the OP's camera is not converted but has two filters setting the overall wavelength response. The camera still has an IR-blocking filter, albeit one that is weaker than many. The combination of the R72 plus the camera's own filter makes a band-pass filter that removes the longer IR wavelengths.

Now, I don't claim to know exactly how the reduced bandwidth will affect the ability to produce nice false colour images, but my gut tells me that reduced bandwidth means reduced opportunity. I suspect that some of the false colour comes from "colour" variations within the IR band. So, a smaller IR band may well mean less "colour" variation.

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