Official Infrared Video #1

First Infrared video after tweaking the lens for clarity and light blocking. The natural light filter is now placed inside the lens housing directly in front of the CCD. Here we have the first look at the outside world, solely illuminated in infrared light, a light which the human eye cannot otherwise see.
A simple dash-mount car drive.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Infrared
• CVS
• camcorder
• hack
• dashmount

[icewolf747s]

yes i just looked in to this and yeah your talking about to completely different light spectrum's silent knows what he is talking about what kinda camera do you have tho?

[Silenthalo]

Thanks for looking into it before hand lol, The camera I'm using is a modified "one time use" camcorder from CVS. As i recall, the IR filter was actually painted onto the focus lens, so i removed the entire housing and replaced it with one from a cheap webcam i had. In this camera i was using fully exposed and developed film negative as a natural light blocking filter.

[jonhgie]

would be nicer if you put your video camera in B&W mode?

because, though i can see the effect, the image looks purple and the effect it is not that impressive that way. I've been working with IR Film Photography for a while, and I was looking for someone that had tried this effect with video, I think it is amazing!

[HLSDK]

The sky is "totally far-out". Very very cool video! If you don't mind suggestions, sky-view timelapse may look neat.

[Silenthalo]

Should you need more convincing, point your remote at your face and press a button... you see nothing right? Now use a digital camera... your camera sees the light coming out just fine. All I've done here is make a camera that sees ONLY that specific light.

Sorry for the rant, but this is the 3rd time someone has argued this point without simply looking into just a bit more beforehand

[Silenthalo]

Since these cameras see heat signatures, they often cannot see through clear glass windows either, since the heat withing the building is different than the outdoor temperature, causing the window to appear solid white or black.

This is not one of those cameras. It does not sense heat differences. It simply sees a light which we cannot. It is the same light that shines from the front of your TV remote every time you press a button.

[Silenthalo]

What you see here is only a certain wavelength of infrared, commonly referred to as "near infrared" It is at the starting portion of the infrared spectrum, and CCDs of all kinds pick it up just fine. The type of infrared camera you are referring to is a FLIR camera, which stands for Forward Looking Infrared. They are mostly used for thermal imaging, and depending on the camera, can output B&W or color gradients to represent the temperature differences it sees.

[Silenthalo]

I'm guessing you weren't really up for some minor research (or perhaps even scrolling through previous comments) before making this post eh?

I guess i'll write it up again since it's not on the front page...

[andreaacme]

IR cameras cost loads of money and there is a reason for that cost. If the video were to show IR as a bright colour, you would see "hot/warm" objects tending to white.. this means: car tyres, car bonnets, your seat as you leave the car should show a "halo" of where you were sitting, etc..

Basically you just filtered some colours out and nothing more. CCDs from video cameras are not good enough IR sensors for daylight.

[AssemblerGuy]

The trees look kind of weird; like if their leaves were made from paper. Is it their chlorophyl that's so "screamingly infrared"...?