Modifying my Camera to see the World Differently

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[MathieuStern]

Modifying a camera to full spectrum can be expensive, So If you don't have a camera you want to modify or just don't have the budget for it, I created the Infrared Lut, that can recreate the look of the IR chrome filter on any video footage and even on photos.

[Eric-czfo]

great video, removing the IR filter from your camera has actually bin a very common thing in the astrophotography community because most emmision nebulas emmit light in the spectrum which is mostly cut by the filter. So perhaps you can try out some astrophotography with your modified camera

[chris-hayes]

I love the retro aesthetic it creates. It really does feel like you're viewing another world, or at the very least, another time.

[neonbowser]

Wow, the conversion with in body filter replacement allowing me to use any lens, that's super cool. I think this may be the push I needed to get into this stuff.

[bifel]

A movie shot entirely with this filter would be amazing

[iamsushi]

Crows, ravens, starlings, and similar birds apparently are like incredibly chromatic with full-spectrum cameras. That is definitely something to try.

[DizDizaster]

As I was seeing each photograph, I kept thinking, "That place is absolutely beautiful. I want to go there one day, " but then had to remember that I wouldn't be able to visit those places and see the same things as the photograph

[mixonXD]

This is one of the most amazing photography tricks I´ve ever seen. Thanks for showing us :D

[MicaelWidell]

I love this! My favorites are the seascapes with red at the bottom of the mountains.

[joemck]

Makes me think that if we had alien tourists who seen in a slightly different spectrum, they would go to strange unvisited parts of the world to see the amazingly colourful landscapes that humans just can't see. (right now)

[legendary_igel_master]

The reason that Seaweed also turns red is because Infrared is reflected by a plant-cell component called Mesophyll. It's in every plant, altough some have more and some have less of it, or the structure differs (hence some plants are more yellow)

[ShawarmaFarmer]

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. Time to save up for a DSLR for these modifications

[ZimoNitrome]

as a colorblind watching this I see no differences lol

[michaelcarter]

I’ve had three cameras that I used for infrared. The first was an old very old Nikon with 2 more sensor. I bought an infrared filter but I could only shoot in bright light. The second one, a Pentax ox, I had converted by a guy at eBay. It was a real dlr. it worked fine with all the lenses. It had an it filter for 720 nm. It was hard to get blue skies. It took 4 double AAs and never lasted long. I still have it but I don’t use. The last camera was a Panasonic gx7, bought new and shipped to Life Pixel. They installed a blue sky filter. I sold that one. It worked quite well with minimal work needed in photo shop. You didn’t mention if the skies came out naturally blue. Also, I’ve never been able to get natural skin color. I kinda gave up on infrared. In some ways, it’s a gimmick. I still enjoy looking at it. I’ve never found a good LUT for making videos. It seems like regular people don’t really know what they’re looking at. And real photographers don’t seem to care.

[paratpargoud]

this video was eyegasm! i hope your photography will be well appreciated even more! in the future ...great work

[lemmetellyousomething]

OMG🤤. Now I want my eyes to see the world like this for forever. It's so mesmerizing ❤️❤️❤️

[-szega]

So an interesting question is why do almost all plants reflect infrared so strongly? Especially because the strongest emissions of the sun are actually in the infrared range, so the plants are missing out on a ton of energy here! The reason is essentially this: photosynthesis needs some minimum amount of energy from each photon - and infrared photons don't have enough energy. So plants use higher energy photons in the visible range, and reflect infrared because infrared would just heat them up needlessly. And that's why all plants are bright in the infrared range.

[baruc]

Those pictures would EASILY be my wallpaper, love the results so much!

[thetobyntr]

I made my Sony A-6000 into a full spectrum camera two years ago and have been intent on doing it well while being as cost effective as I can so hares some stuff I would have liked to know when I started: Its nearly $50 cheaper to get a fern green glass filter by Roscolux (they make filters for stage lighting, you could maybe find something similar somewhere else) and a tiffin hot mirror filter (has to be tiffin's since it doesn't cut out the red edge on plants but does stop deeper infrared) to clean out the purple colored IR. The green filter essentially cuts out stuff from yellow to red strongly with a leak in IR like IR chrome does, only this one filters by reflecting unwanted wavelengths while IR chrome absorbs them and leaks some purple IR wavelengths. Being a green filter, it lets though around 500nm and leaks past the edges of the visible spectrum with a band from near UV, visible, and near IR forming the image but it's close enough to visible wavelengths for my camera's auto WB to actually work with it at times. I had to mount it using small filter rings so I could fit it in my lens adapter as an internal filter (this had the least reflections), but it worked in front of the lens only with more reflections. It makes plants look kind of orange or yellow right out the camera like IR chrome and you can do post processing to make it look red about the same.
For other filters, just about all that can be done by hand with a full spectrum modded camera can be accomplished if you have a red filter, an orange one, a 720 or 750nm, and an 800nm. It's also nice to have a swatch book of gel lighting filters since sometimes you will find cool effects the eye won't show using those. That's actually how the guy that made the IR chrome filter figured it out; it was a sea green filter that passed a lot of IR and worked well enough that led to the current IR chrome filter. If you REALLY want to do a faithful recreation of the film the IR chrome filter is imitating, then there's this filter called "DB 850" and with an orange filter like an O-16 you do a channel swap with blue to red, red to green, and green to blue that works pretty well, if white balanced.
Also for some good places with info on this online there's "UltravioletPhotography" a forum with good people and tons of information focusing on UV but some people talk from all sides of multispectral photography with stuff like Aerochrome filter stacks, David tweed's blog "Next Eyes" talks about a few things that UVP doesn't (it's also just neat to look through), and finally edwardnoble.com is important since he has a huge collection of info on how different lenses do in IR among the things on his website, the lenses there worked awesome since the trial and error is done already for a good bit.

[MacM]

I also got a camera modified, to full spectrum. The great thing about Kolari Vision, is that for full spectrum, you can get the Fused Silica sensor cover, which is useful for someone who might decide and want to do UV photography sometime later. Also, an interchangeable camera can be more versatile; a compact camera might not be able to do UV. It can also be important to choose a kit that doesn't make for hotspots.