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full IR conversion w/D5100? anyone with experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 226287" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I had my D7000 converted by Kolari Vision after reading about them on Nasim Mansurov's blog. I am extremely happy with mine. As Glenn suggests, getting into IR means you have to be into post-processing your shots. It took me a while to come up with some presets that help me get close to where I want to be fairly quickly, but it's still a 10 minute minimum with most. And you need to shoot RAW, particularly with Nikon as it is next to impossible to achieve a proper in-camera IR white balance with some Nikons.</p><p></p><p>I heartily recommend the folks at <a href="http://kolarivision.com/" target="_blank">Kolari Vision</a>. For similar money they will also calibrate the camera to one lens, which is very important since IR wavelengths are slightly different and you will not necessarily get crisp focus without it, particularly without using Live View. I have gotten great results with the D7000 and my 18-105mm (a perfect lens for IR). Feel free to poke through my Flickr account to see some of what I have done with it, and check out <a href="http://nikonites.com/learning-photography/17227-infrared-color-schemes.html" target="_blank">this post</a> if you want an idea of what kind of color schemes you can get from the 720nm conversion I did. My experience with Kolari Vision was excellent. I traded several emails with them before deciding to send my camera in and they answered all my questions quickly and thoroughly. I have a D90 lying around that I may send in for a full spectrum conversion next year some time.</p><p></p><p>As for which filter to go with, they can all be abstract. 720nm, to me, is the purest IR conversion, while the others let in more color. If that's extremely important to him then perhaps you want to go with either a lower wavelength conversion, or possibly full spectrum or two-spectrum conversion? With the latter you essentially have a camera that filters out no light whatsoever (or just UV in the second case), so you would need to apply filters to the lens to only allow in what you want. I'm on the fence now about full or two-spectrum. In any case, there are some great examples on the Kolari Vision website.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 226287, member: 9240"] I had my D7000 converted by Kolari Vision after reading about them on Nasim Mansurov's blog. I am extremely happy with mine. As Glenn suggests, getting into IR means you have to be into post-processing your shots. It took me a while to come up with some presets that help me get close to where I want to be fairly quickly, but it's still a 10 minute minimum with most. And you need to shoot RAW, particularly with Nikon as it is next to impossible to achieve a proper in-camera IR white balance with some Nikons. I heartily recommend the folks at [URL="http://kolarivision.com/"]Kolari Vision[/URL]. For similar money they will also calibrate the camera to one lens, which is very important since IR wavelengths are slightly different and you will not necessarily get crisp focus without it, particularly without using Live View. I have gotten great results with the D7000 and my 18-105mm (a perfect lens for IR). Feel free to poke through my Flickr account to see some of what I have done with it, and check out [URL="http://nikonites.com/learning-photography/17227-infrared-color-schemes.html"]this post[/URL] if you want an idea of what kind of color schemes you can get from the 720nm conversion I did. My experience with Kolari Vision was excellent. I traded several emails with them before deciding to send my camera in and they answered all my questions quickly and thoroughly. I have a D90 lying around that I may send in for a full spectrum conversion next year some time. As for which filter to go with, they can all be abstract. 720nm, to me, is the purest IR conversion, while the others let in more color. If that's extremely important to him then perhaps you want to go with either a lower wavelength conversion, or possibly full spectrum or two-spectrum conversion? With the latter you essentially have a camera that filters out no light whatsoever (or just UV in the second case), so you would need to apply filters to the lens to only allow in what you want. I'm on the fence now about full or two-spectrum. In any case, there are some great examples on the Kolari Vision website. [/QUOTE]
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