Compact Digital Camera Conversion to Infrared - part 2 the infrared pass filter 

I realise this video is 10 years old now, but just converted an old TZ9 as per your videos and it works a treat. A few differences in internal design being a TZ9, but got there in the end. A good way of trying infrared photography without ‘breaking the bank’.

Thank you for taking the time to make these two videos they have helped me a lot and made things more understandable. I do like the idea of being able to switch the filters, that way you should be able to get a filter to block the IR and use the camera as a normal one when needed.

These infrared shots are awesome.Beautiful soundtrack👍

Thanks Graham both parts of the conversion video were fantastic.Great advice presented in a calm and collective manner like all your videos.I think I will visit your web site for further info as well.Keep up the good work my friend.Regards Shaun

I followed you instructions and removed the IR filter from my old Lumix DMC-TZ3 and then added a receiver ring and IR pass filter on the lens. Love the results. Plan to get an IR illuminator to do a little night photography.

Hi Graham. As usual, clear, concise and easy to follow. Thanks, ........ john

Creates stunning images, many thanks once again Graham.

Great video,I have just bought a Panasonic tz25 infared . I’m finding your videos easy to understand 👍

Excellent photos and landscapes, thanks, was a interesting workshop talk and research

Great work ,thank you for splendid fotos ,with great profesionalism.

Thanks Graham. Nicely explained.

Excellent video. Works very well! Thanks.

Thanks alot for the 2 info videos, the infrared fotos look great. Just ordered a used TZ6 at a very good price, and look forward to try it.

Thanks for that, will have a go in the morning !

I did this with newer P&S cameras whose lenses were smaller diameter and retracted into the body behind protective shutters. The adapter ring approach does't work well with these, it isn't easy to find IR blocking external filters that small or exposed film leader. I ended up using a cut thin film blue "plant" filter from publiclab org in place of the original IR filter (which was much harder to remove and replace than with the larger sensor camera in the example).

You can take infrared pictures even if the blocking filter is still in place but you'll be looking at long exposures so a tripod will be needed. Use a 720Nm or 850Nm infrared filter on the front of the lens. One advantage of this method is lovely looking motion blur of clouds, water, foliage in the wind - quite magical. When you've finished just remove the filter and the camera will work as normal.

thank you for sharing the knowledge

Hi Graham, looks like you're a Wiganner to me (or thereabouts) with the pics of the Chop house up Millgate, the parish church and Winter hill.

some of these shots are spectacular....... I would have liked some taken in the dark great work as ever Graham

Very helpful, thank you.

Thanks Graham. Liked & Subscribed. I'm going to convert my old Sony Cybershot for wide field astrophotograpy. It cost me $400 back in the day but it's been in a drawer for years since I got a dslr. It's next to worthless now but this should give it a new lease of life :)

I think you have also to refocus point the camera, because the IR light has a different wave length relative to vissable light. Otherwise the you have onsharp images.

What an excellent video! Thank you very much. Wondering if you decided to modify the UV filter rings on your lathe before using the epoxy to the camera? Also would like to know what you would charge for the modification? I have an older Panasonic DMC-FH20 I am thinking of converting.

thanks for sharing,great!!

Very good job. Nice pictures. Can I do that on my TZ5 ? Thanks a lot.

Just purchased a $5 camera to play with and do this conversion. Then if successful, I'll do a more expensive one. Thank you!

Always wondered what would be seen at the other end of light spectrum, ie deep UV. only.

THANK YOU!

Excellent video indeed. I'll try this with a tz10. Just wanted to know 3 things : 1) Are there any issues with the AF? 2) What are aproximately the exposure times for the images at the end of the video? 3) Due to my poor english I didn't understand how you removed the filter thread from the uv filter. Thanks a lot.

Graham, im curious if you have ever photographed anything in Infrared that seems to be paranormal in nature.. i have a knock off version of a GOPRO that i payed too much for that was modified for NV.. didnt know i could do it myself LOL lack of research.. but i dont have a good enough light source IR for outside.. for night time.. my camera is wide screen and the light source i do have puts a small circle of bright light in the center of screen.. drowning out anything im trying to capture, i can use it inside if i point the light source at the ceiling. but that does not work outside.. so, can u tell me a decently priced, or possible hack, homemade light source i could make that would work good with my camera? I am interested in the paranormal and have gotten some really cool things inside with it.. you seem to be very knowledgeable when it comes to cameras, i have something i would love you for you look at and let me know if it seems natural for night vision or if i captured something special.. it was an orb like light that went to the right, and then made a 90 degree turn toward the ground and then split into 2 or 3 lights.. at the same time i captured an evp recording of a female saying "the light is cindy" which validated it for me. i have had some others look at it that are familiar with NV and they said it didnt look like a camera artifact to them

Great video! And this will presumably work for video mode as well? I've seen some IR videos online that seem to have some colour. Would this work with a partial IR blocking filter?

I like very much your instructable. I ask: HDR photo plus IR pass filter? What do you think?

Hi thanks for the vids. Is there no problems when the lens retracts and the covers want to shut?

What size does the filter have to be where the IR filter is threaded, thanks for the help.

Thanks for showing this tutorial, I have this same camera and the filter ring to modify for the infrared pass filter. I feel confident I can emulate you, but I have one question and you half answered it right at the very end. To take infrared photos, at night, i will need an infrared illuminator won't I? It therefore follows that the scope of the illumination is dependent on the infrared out put, and with a back viewing screen, the illumination would need to be on constant to be able to compose a photo. I'm considering an L bracket (with an accessory shoe on top of the hand grip) attached to the camera's tripod socket, the infrared lamp could then be fixed on the hand grip. I suppose my field of focus and depth of field is then dependent on the infrared output and lens design of the infrared illuminator. Have you tried or know of any particular illuminators that are best suited to this project?

did you answer the question about if the modded camera properly and precisely focuses?

Lovely video again Graham. I've got a little Fujifilm X-M1, I was going to flog on eBay, but now, I may have a better use for it. :-)

I've been intrested in converting a camera for a long time thanks for the video the lumix is my favorites compact camera. Did I miss something or how do you deal with the lens retracting back into the camera with the new filter ring on it does it not pose a problem In fitting and the front doors of the lens covers closing automatically

Thanks for the 2 great Videos, Graham. The Camera you used has DMC-TZ65 printed on it. I found one on Ebay UK for 6 pound (Still use that currency? (Not Euros)). Of the 2 links to Amazon for the filters: Which one did you cannibalise and glue on the camera? The first link or the second link?

I've heard some clothes might appear transparent to infrared light. What is your experience about it?

Hi Graham and everyone, thanks a lot for the tutorial, i did the same thing for my compact sony camera, but unfortunately i have a problem with autofocus now, the camera became farsighted. The landscape pictures now are a bit out of focus. How did you managed to fix that? Thank you for any help.

I I wont to make long range vision for the infrared filter what should I do and need yo make that please

Is it worth trying a Hoya R72 on a FZ150 Graham? Great pictures as ever! Regards, Brian

great job! very well explained ... any videos shot using this camera after conversion to IR?

graham i wonder if you could make me one of this filters for the other filter to screw onto please get intouch thank you

I converted two Panasonic cameras, a ZS7 and a ZS1. I am having troube with vignetting on the corners at the wide angle on ZS7 but it not on the ZS1. I cut down the rings that I epoxied to the lens barrels on both, it is nice and low profile. The IR 720 filter is a 'Green.L' . My thought is the vignetting must be coming from the metal filter ring. I am thinking that I may have to remove a couple of millimeters from it to solve the problem. Any thoughts?

Very cool pictures! I came across some video where he shows there are some still cameras who do capable of taking infra red shots, without conversion. It is called: "Color Infrared Photography Tutorial (IR)" by Photo Extremist. Put it in the search space.

There was another youtube-R who experimented with a iR-Security Camera, and he had taken out the iR-Filiment from the Camera Sensor and was able to get an X-Ray Camera that sees past Form-factors' of electronics! Have you tried pointing your Moded Camera at different boxes or electronics to see if it can see through a layer of plastic???

I am thinking about converting my Nikon coolpix s230 to permanent IR. Will this process work?

Hi Graham very nice video. i Have one question for you. If I want to use a digital compact camera at night with a infrared illuminator and I have removed the infrared filter inside of the camera, do i still need to use a infrared pass filter? Thanks Marno

Hi Graham! I wont make the pictures in the night( no blitz); mi cam is Fuji digital 16 mega pix. Help mi please!

Hi Graham. I've always linked infrared to night vision (focusing on heat rather than light). Have I got that wrong? None of your example photos seem to be taken at night so I'm wondering how the conversion would cope with night time photography without flash, taking photos of badgers in my garden for example. I think the example photos are pretty neat by the way.

is this the same setup for NDVI ?

Can I add a filter to the front of the lx5?

Can you get false color with this method?

Hello Graham, First I want to thank you for the wonderful free book for the FZ200 :-) I only recently acquired the FZ200 and my only 'spare' camera is a Canon A630, so my question is; is it possible to do to the A630 what you have done to the Panasonic with the conversion to infrared?

Hello Graham, Do you think a 37mm to 30mm Step Down Ring can be glued to the cam using the flat side so that the 37mm IR filter can be mounted? In this case the 30mm diameter ring would be seen on the corners of the photo? Or can I just simply use a 37mm-37mm spacer ring?

Hi Graham, I have a TZ7 and wondered does the cameras lens still close properly when you turn off? Phil

With this camera, if you select B&W mode, do you still need to process your pictures in PS, other than adjusting contrast and sharpness and such? Thx

Some images seem to have different color tones. Have you post processed any, or are these came strait from the camera?

Can someone please help with settings for TZ7/ ZS3. I have converted the camera already and fitted filter. What white balance etc best to use. Thanks all

Hi Graham, Further to my request for information on the combination of a FZ150 and a Hoya R72 filter. I have read various reports on this and some say yes and some say no. As such I am reluctant to buy as yet and wonder if you have any advice on this. There must be quite a few FZ150 owners that would be interested. Apparently the FZ200 fitted with a Leica lens suffers from a centre hot spot. Regards, Brian

How different the world would appear to us if we could only see it in the IR spectrum.

Why color aren't there?? Removed it??

I can't understand this one graham - why are you installing an IR pass filter to the front of the lens when you've removed the IR blocking filter from inside the camera?? surely one only needs to do one or the other?

Thanks Mr Houghton. I have the same camera and successfully converted it. I wonder if you would have time to revisit this topic and discuss the processing part of the resulting images. You skipped over this in your video above. There are some challenges which I face. The images recorded are in jpeg only and not raw format. Other videos that I have looked up discuss making a camera profile in LR but this necessitates using raw files to do so. I am having difficulty getting the right look of my IR images. Can you do a quick run through on how you achieved this for your images? Are camera profiles needed? Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for considering.

Hello, sir you important videos should have caption in English

what wou.d be needed in addition to.a set such as these? ZOMEI 37mm IR Filter 680/720/760/850/950NM X-Ray Infrared Filter Set F/ Nikon Condition: NewNew PACKAGE INCLUDED A ring of some kind to mount them as swappable?