I love infrared, and have been shooting it since film days. I did have a small digital that I converted but it wasn't the same. This looks amazing the image quality out of it looks much better than the camera I had converted.
Hey Malcolm, I just picked up a Yashica Electro 35 film body because of your post, and I'm looking forward to attempting your build. Any advice on the 3D model for the camera insides?
Hey Tim, stay tuned - I’m building another one right now and will be providing more details on the 3d model shortly. Just refining it at the moment since the first one was more trial and error. My main advice would be to get the body completely gutted to make room for the new internals and design the 3d model around the new opening.
Hi Tu, yes - main reason was to reduce battery usage by limiting processing power needed by the camera. Since I didn’t need a full camera preview running for this application and only had space for a small battery, I decided to only call it when needed at the time of taking a photo. I’ve gotten 3 hours of battery use from a 1200 mah battery. I use picamera2 in other builds and can post some code if you’re interested in that!
Big fan on 590nm with a channel swap for pink foliage and blue skies, but also use some cheap aliexpress "irchrome" digital aerochrome filters that are an absolute blast.
I’m glad to hear you’ve been getting good results on the aliexpress ir chrome! I’ve been on the fence about getting that one. Have you ever used variable IR filters? Saw one on Amazon but not sure if it’ll be any good
my opinion is that they are hokum, just a variable ND (which is just two polarizers rotating against each other IIRC) over a 590nm filter, it sort of does what it says but it's not really changing the wavelength of light thats being let through the way a true IR filter is.
Thank you, that is great to know. Will definitely be picking up a 590nm soon and will check out the ir chrome. Someone recommended that I try a UV pass filter too - may look into that soon
I love infrared, and have been shooting it since film days. I did have a small digital that I converted but it wasn't the same. This looks amazing the image quality out of it looks much better than the camera I had converted.
Please let me know when you start producing them
Thank you for the feedback!! I’ll definitely keep you updated
Hey Malcolm, I just picked up a Yashica Electro 35 film body because of your post, and I'm looking forward to attempting your build. Any advice on the 3D model for the camera insides?
Hey Tim, stay tuned - I’m building another one right now and will be providing more details on the 3d model shortly. Just refining it at the moment since the first one was more trial and error. My main advice would be to get the body completely gutted to make room for the new internals and design the 3d model around the new opening.
Hi, is there a reason you used subprocess to run a terminal command instead of using the picamera2 library? Thanks!
Hi Tu, yes - main reason was to reduce battery usage by limiting processing power needed by the camera. Since I didn’t need a full camera preview running for this application and only had space for a small battery, I decided to only call it when needed at the time of taking a photo. I’ve gotten 3 hours of battery use from a 1200 mah battery. I use picamera2 in other builds and can post some code if you’re interested in that!
Hi Malcolm, nice build... What os is running under the hood?
Thank you - rasp pi os lite
Would love to see it with some other wavelength filters!
Would definitely try some out! Any you recommend?
Big fan on 590nm with a channel swap for pink foliage and blue skies, but also use some cheap aliexpress "irchrome" digital aerochrome filters that are an absolute blast.
I’m glad to hear you’ve been getting good results on the aliexpress ir chrome! I’ve been on the fence about getting that one. Have you ever used variable IR filters? Saw one on Amazon but not sure if it’ll be any good
my opinion is that they are hokum, just a variable ND (which is just two polarizers rotating against each other IIRC) over a 590nm filter, it sort of does what it says but it's not really changing the wavelength of light thats being let through the way a true IR filter is.
Thank you, that is great to know. Will definitely be picking up a 590nm soon and will check out the ir chrome. Someone recommended that I try a UV pass filter too - may look into that soon