Infrared photography used to be deceased easy. You'd purchase a few IR movie and put a dark, dim red filter on the front of your lens. Then you'd spin the concentration ring a nick to the left to indemnify is to fact that the IR light focuses differently. Apart from not obviously being able to see anything by the viewfinder interjection to the IR filter, it was simple.
To do the same thing with your digital SLR you have to beginning by stealing the IR filter over the sensor. If that sounds dangerous and hard to reverse, it is.
So you may ponder the Midnight Shot NV-1, a night-vision camera done for infrared photography. The camera is as elementary as it gets: 5MP sensor, prearranged focus, a three-inch LCD and 640 x 480 AVI video capture. But switch it in to night mode and things obtain interesting.
IR mode puts an IR filter in front of the lens to inhibit all but IR light, and if it is already dim outward then you can switch on an IR LED lamp, invisible to human eyes but on fire splendid to the camera's sensor. This gets a few cool, night-vision effects, and lets you shoot in the dim without any person knowing.
More creative, though, is to let the innate light. Shooting in daytime with the IR filter on will result in a few uncanny shade shifts. In BW, blue skies will darken to black and leaves will take on an fragile glow. In short, you'll be able to tear a few creepy pictures.
The Midnight Shot camera comes from ThinkGeek, and expenses only $150. It is now out of stock, but more should be existing soon.
Midnight Shot NV-1 [ThinkGeek]
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