@Jason I can't find your post about the SJ7 and IR but... I just looked at three different "clickers" with my camera, and there they are flashing and shining away with each button push. Thanks for the tip!
If would wanted to invalidate your warranty and unscrew the lens to remove the IR-CUT filter you'd find that videos and photos in daylight get a funky look withing that reflect in (e.g foliage) suddenly taking on pink and white hues
Trust me, I've got more than enough funk at the moment. LOL When I was fooling around with attaching webcams to telescopes for imaging, adding an IR filter was a big deal. Without one, focusing an image running from just into UV to well into the IR was no easy feat. Filter, filter, filter was the rule. 'Course, that was at a point where saturating one CCD cell meant the entire row or column was saturated, too. That left a white streak across the full image. Good point about needing an IR source for nighttime shooting.
You could stand there with all the remote controls you own lighting the scene I think I have an old cheapo interpolated knock off in a draw somewhere. Think I'll pull off the IR-Cut and give it a try - if I still have it.
Now there's an idea. Not a good idea, but an idea nonetheless. [/wink] I'll be interested to see how it works out.
Only edits were to resize them so the file sizes were small enough to post A still from a video on a windowless landing with no lights on, illuminated only by the pulses of a remote control Lush green leaves illuminated by electric heater Kitchen lit through partially open door behind the camera (notice colour of the green succulent plants on the right above the washing machine)
We all have our demons - mine happen to be nailed to my walls. That was a Citipati mask from the Himalayas
You can also use gel lighting filter paper to do effects like this picture. Taken with an SJ4000 and attached a Lee Congo Blue filter.
Yup. That’s what it normally looks like. Some cameras more pink and some more purple than others. The SJ4000 is more on the less saturated purple side and the SJ6 Legend is just that your picture. It looks like this because it can now see in infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths we can’t see.
If you want cheap IR light, then buy a Reptile Heat bulb. Get the black one and you’ll see a dim visible glow but the camera will see a lit up area. Bulb is about $6 U.S. It gets hot but not too much hotter than a standard incandescent bulb if the same watts.
Looking at the specs for the Congo blue it looks like it attenuates visible light more than uv or if. sweet. Somehow I don't think that I'll get the same results from the wrapper of a Quality Street Brazil nut.
Lol. It actually blocks visible light and allows infrared light to pass through. My method is more DIY so it’s not blocking visible light 100% . I’ve used the same filter paper to turn an incandescent flashlight to infrared only but it takes about 4 layers to block the visible light out. You can also use film negatives as a visible light blocker/ir pass.
Here’s another with the SJ4000 but using a Lee “Blood Red” filter. This one is over the lens and not behind it like the blue one. I’m using a “UV Lens Cap” to hold the filter over the lens so I can remove or change them out as preferred. 8am here and all the bright white spots are the morning sunlight. I bought a Lee Filter Sample book off eBay for $6 and it has tons of colors and enough to cut a filter out of. Some don’t do much aside from changing the tint but others will block visible light more than others.
Here’s a couple more. SJ4000 with Lee Aurora Borealis Green and Lee Blood Red. The previous post is supposed to be Lee Marius Red. Couldn’t tell if the filter info was on top or bottom. Bottom apparently...
