Your digital camera is equipped with a sensor made of thousand of small phototransistors, those cells has the property to be a lot more sensitive to infrared than visible light. That is why manufacturers must add a band pass filter to stop excess of infrared light. So we can reverse the end result by replacing this daylight band pass filter by an infrared band pass filter which will stop excess of daylight and let the infrared get through. The results are spectaculars.

In that kind of photography, trees and everything that contain chlorophyll change from green to white. The sky gets very contrasted with their whites clouds on their dark background. We also can see the difference between by a cold lightening produced by fluorescent light compared with the more hot incandescent light
. The white balances choose will make some greats effects from black & white picture to reddish toned pictures.


To modify a reflex camera.

You will have first to choose and order the IR filter type from  lifepixel.com, which may cost from 175 to 300 dollars depending on model. Then you send me your camera and filter so I can start the modification on which consist to open the camera, take off circuitry, remove and disassemble the sensor assembly and replacing it band pass filter by your IR filter with all precautions to not let dust enter between the sensor and filter. Sometime, I need to reopen the whole unit to remove small dust that kept inside. On first check, we will see some white or black dots, which are not dust but dead pixels. Those dead pixels which were almost invisible prior the modification, become obvious now because the sensor now can work on a lot more sensitive light bandwidth.    

The fees for replacing the filter are roughly between $ 150.00 to $ 225.00 and the price of the filter itself. The most advantage with the reflex is the wide diversity of lens available to use with the camera, however the disadvantage is that the auto focus is no longer usable because of the IR do not converge as the visible rays do, but now with the new camera including the ''live view'' mode you still can perform an accurate manual focus. If the live view is not available on your camera model, you will have to compensate the focus a little bit closer as we had to do with old lens that had a small red dot with the letter R beside the index mark.             

                                       On this lens below the focus at infinity need to be set aligned to the small red dot for IR picture.

To modify a point and shoot camera.

Here it is far cheaper and a bit more practical. You only send the camera on which we will apply the whole modification for around $ 150.00 to $ 250.00 depending on the model, this include the IR filter which we cut from a blank at the appropriate size. The most important advantage is that you keep all auto focus function since the image sensor and the AF sensor are the same.