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Permalink Reply by Dave on January 25, 2012 at 6:13am

I broke my first one my dropping it on a tile floor - shattered the lens into hundreds of pieces. When I opened it up, I discovered that the whole lens+CCD asembly is VERY tightly glues and screwed together. It's extremely difficult to get into it without breaking something.

given the cost of the camera, I'd STRONGLY advise against doing it since there's a reasonable chance you'll break it during the process.

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Permalink Reply by Gord on January 26, 2012 at 5:32am

check out the lucid science website. They have projects on how to convert cameras to IR. They also have plans to make IR illuminators. Its a cool site with hacks and other projects.

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Permalink Reply by Patric Millar on October 22, 2012 at 5:13pm

Wondering how you got on with this?

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Permalink Reply by Jason on October 22, 2012 at 6:49pm

I didn't dare open the GoPro up so I waited, hoping that someone would introduce a hackable camera. My prayers were answered with this, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11418 .


I just received my first one. I plan on using this one "as is". After gaining some knowledge with it, I plan on obtaining a second one and voiding the warenty to remove the Near IR filter. Only two screws hold the lens on, very easy to remove. The price is more manageable too.

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Permalink Reply by Luke Olson on October 23, 2012 at 8:29pm

It might take some trial and error to get it working properly for two reasons. Infrared travels through glass different than visible light so it will focus differently and removing the hot mirror changes the focus as well (replace it with a glass infrared filter). I've converted a few cameras myself that were older like a Sony MVC-CD300 and had a Canon 20D converted by LifePixel. Infrared photography is a lot of fun! When you get things working I'd love to see the results.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Carl Campbell on October 25, 2012 at 10:13am

You will also need a visible light filter.  I made a Near IR camera out of a Canon Powershot A540 a threaded bayonet filter adapter and a 720nm visible light filter.  It worked well for shooting near IR and shot through smoke and haze like it was not there.  However post production of B&W and false color is required or you have basically a purple white video feed.   Unfortunately I sold it a year ago.... 

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Permalink Reply by Patric Millar on October 25, 2012 at 3:34pm

thanks for that.  How did you trigger the camera?  I want to take shots of crops and pasture and then post process the results.  Hence my preference for a Go Pro with its ability to take multiple timed shots.

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Permalink Reply by Cala on October 25, 2012 at 6:22pm

you hack the Canon firm with the Chdk and have timelapse .)

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Permalink Reply by CADBeyond on October 25, 2012 at 6:43pm

Here may the best choice for using in UAV!

http://www.maxmax.com/canon_sx230.htm

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Permalink Reply by Patric Millar on October 25, 2012 at 6:49pm

thanks for the link the XNiteCanonSX230NDVI 3-Band Vegetation Stress Remote Sensing Camera could do the  job if it would time lapse.  I'll do some more research.

 

many thanks

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Permalink Reply by CADBeyond on October 25, 2012 at 7:47pm

Sure! it can if you install the CHDK as well!

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Permalink Reply by Patric Millar on October 25, 2012 at 8:02pm

thanks

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