Digital BW, The Print

I agree that the first page image does not look very "IR like" except 
that it looks as though the couple may have been wearing sunglasses 
(which IR penetrates), but also look at the sample image by George Lepp 
on this page of the site:
http://www.irdigital.net/_wsn/page3.html
Highlights are blown out, but definitely an IR image.

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 07:57  PM, Ken Carney wrote:

> I don't know...the pic on his website didn't look all that IR to me.  
> Kind
> of weak foliage, skin tones instead of marble, etc.  I seem to remember
> someone who would modify consumer cameras by removing the IR blocking
> filter, like my Olympus C-4000, for which I have a #87 and R72 filter. 
>  Does
> that ring a bell?  Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
>   --Ken Carney
>     www.kencarney.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Schofield [mailto:scho@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:14 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Digital B&W Camera [Was: Good camera for
> B&W]
>
>
> This guy will perform major surgery on your camera for a fee.
> Apparently, he removes the bayer filter on the sensor and replaces the
> IR cut filter (in front of the sensor on a D30 and D60) with a #87 IR
> pass filter to leave you with an IR only B&W camera.  I would think
> that the filter replacement could also be with a neutral density
> filter, but I really don't know.  No firmware mods, so I'm not sure how
> you go about setting exposure, etc.
> http://www.irdigital.net/index.html
>
> Carl
>
> On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 12:05  PM, Austin Franklin wrote:
>
>> Truman,
>>
>>> However, wouldn't it be nice if someone made a B&W digitical camera -
>>> then 6 megapixesls would rally be six megapixels. The processing 
>>> would
>>> be minized since you would not need to worry much about white balance
>>> (could use a filter to do that).  A true B&W digital camera.
>>
>> There were a couple of Kodak digital cameras that were monochrome, but
>> I
>> don't believe they went as high as 6M pixels.  The Leaf Lumina is a 6M
>> pixel
>> (true 6M pixels, as it is a scanning camera), and does grayscale...but
>> your
>> subjects have to stand very still ;-)  The images are superb from it.
>> I
>> also have a 7k scanning back for my Hasselblad, and in monochrome
>> mode, the
>> images are nothing less than superb...but it's only good for studio
>> work, as
>> it's a scanner.
>>
>> I agree, I wish someone made their Bayer filters so they were
>> removable.
>> The filters are separate from the actual sensor arrays, they are not
>> built-in to the sensor array, they are on top of it, and therefore
>> *could*
>> be removed (or simply replaced with a neutral density filter) if
>> someone
>> really wanted to make the effort...but the issue is the software
>> wouldn't
>> know how to deal with it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin
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