 Wendy M. Hansen-Penman |
Infrared Camera Conversion Hey, anyone out there converted a camera to Infrared lately? Who did you use?
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Ilene Samowitz |
I've used Life Pixel and recommend them highly. I had a Nikon D70 converted to standard and a Nikon D200 converted to enhanced. Contact me if you have any questions. If you decide to use them, you can use me for the referral if you like.
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Wendy M. Hansen-Penman |
That is who I have been looking at too. They look like about the biggest and baddest in the biz. Would you recommend the standard or enhanced? I am leaning toward the enhanced just so I have some options with color. I am looking at a Nikon D3000 at Adorama and a D50 at a local store. About the same price. What do you think? The one from Adorama was refurbished by Nikon.
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Ilene Samowitz |
I prefer the enhanced. You get more detail since you have more info being recorded. I would give them a call and ask them which would be a better candidate. Setting custom white balance is important if you want to do color work. However, Adobe Raw or Lightroom will not correctly read the custom white balance set and you will need to use Capture NX to get the correct white balance red unless you want to do a lot of extra work in Photoshop. Life Pixel has info on their site about this. The only camera that Lightroom or Camera Raw can read are the Lumix G series. I do not remember the reason behind that. You have the same issue with both color or enhanced. A work around is to desaturate the foliage that should be white from the red bleed.
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Ilene Samowitz |
You can notice in the rocks that there is a hint of red that still bleeds slightly into the gray. http://www.ilenesamowitzphoto.com/-/ilenesamowitzphoto/gallery.php?LID=&cat=130166&pID=3&row=15&photoID=10333319&searchTerm= You can also check out my infrared gallery at www.ilenesamowitzphoto.com
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Wendy, I've done IR too and would recommend the "enhanced" option. Good luck...it's definitely a new world out there with IR!
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Robert Jensen |
Outdoor Photographer technical guru George Lepp recommends MaxMax in New York. I had a camera converted there. Instead of just a B&W conversion, I had them do a deep black IR conversion. With deep black you get deepter blacks and whiter whites.
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