Sunday, November 4, 2007

Digital Infrared Photography

I love infrared photography - it's alien and otherworldly. In the past, I've experimented with both color IR slide film and B&W infrared film photography. Great, unpredictable, beautiful results! Complete and utter hassle!!! Loading/changing the film in complete darkness is very annoying. And some cameras can't even use the films because their film advance mechanism uses a light which can fog the film.

The November issues of Outdoor Photographer has a terrific article by Bob Krist on converting your old digital camera to IR. I have an old Canon 10D that's lying around the house gathering dust. After reading Bob's article and revisting some of my old IR photos, I'm definitely going to look into getting my 10D converted!

Here are two of the links that are suggested for IR conversions:
http://www.maxmax.com
http://www.lifepixel.com

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