Infrared Photography with a Digital Camera

First, use a digital camera. Digital cameras have a special infrared blocking filter in front of the photosensitive matrix CCD infrared light that degrades the color of visible light (CCD itself responds to wavelengths of 1000 nanometers and beyond ). The question is how to pass infrared filter.

Some older models, like the venerable Olympus C-2000Z/C-2020Z (but not '2040!) And the Nikon 950, has been very generous here, but the new model just enough to allow the IR light is not suitable for Infrared photography, most of them, while the relatively long exposure time required, they also offer a viable solution. Remember, the camera manufacturers to do everything possible to stop from reaching the infrared sensor!

For example, using the Hoya R72 IR filter (perhaps the genre most useful) on an Olympus E-500 adjustment of exposure of approximately 11 EV (f-stop), or by a factor ranging from 1500 to 3000 (1 eV corresponds to a doubling or halving the amount of light). In fact, I would classify all the digital cameras I've used over the last five years are hardly used for infrared photography - which does not prevent good results from them anyway. For comparison, needed the C-2000Z, only 7 VE (130 ×) adjustment, which is about 15 times more sensitive