Where to find ir filters

See some examples. Our X-Nite filters are custom made using precision made ground and polished German glass. Instead of problems getting proper exposure, just add to your filter selection to widen your options. Learn more here. For correct color balance, if you want to take normal not infrared pictures, you will need this filter. Our other X-Nite filters pass infrared and block visible light.

Some newer digital cameras use an infrared blocking glass that lets more visible light through and some infrared light. Our X-NiteCC2 is designed for those types of cameras. Click Here To Order. Do not view the sun through the filter since invisible infrared passes easily through this filter and you will burn your retina even though glass looks black!

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The X-Nite filters are not returnable. All sales are final. Remember you need to experiment with filters in a variety of lighting conditions, subjects and materials to learn how to use them properly! Do you need another filter size and need a different type of filter? Filter size and type wanted. You may also use a Stepping Ring to step-up or step-down sizes in order to mount a filter of one size on a camera with different threads.

When using a step-down ring, please be aware that you may get vignetting, which means you may see the filter in the corners of the image especially at wide angle.

Infrared Color Band Pass Series. Glass Type : Precision Ground. Material Thickness: 3mm, 2mm or 1mm. Potential near-infrared or infrared color shifts are prevented or minimized, which preserves color accuracy throughout the frame.

This filter is constructed from Water White glass for increased clarity as well as color fidelity. Have a question? Added to cart successfully! The Extra Color filter nm The Extra color filter nm has an effect between the nm and nm, producing more vibrant colors than the nm for pale yellow leaves and brighter blue skies. When to use this filter: My most used filter, this filter is best suited for processing to a traditional blue sky and white leaves, by desaturating the yellow in the leaves.

This produces a look like the nm filter, but providing a richer blue that comes out more reliably between different cameras and different shooting conditions. The camera and will produce bright whites and pronounced darks.

Equivalent to the Wratten 87c. Also good for forensics and other applications where the deep IR wavelengths are helpful. This filter is also handy for landscape photography, as it produces a similar effect to the nm after a channel swap, right out of the camera. When to use this filter: Good for crop analysis purposes and a false color IR without post processing. Due to the multiple bands the lens has to focus with this filter, the images are less sharp than they can be with the dedicated IR filters.

The Full Spectrum filter clear glass makes the camera sensitive to UV, visible, and IR light, allowing switching between various external filters to achieve the desired effect, this allows going between infrared and regular shooting with one camera, however on DSLRs opaque infrared filters will block composition.

It works the same way as the full spectrum, while filtering out UV for better color rendition in visible light shooting. The first consideration is deciding if you will shoot color or not. If you will shoot even occasional color, then you will need to go with the nm filter or below. When choosing between the nm, nm, and nm, the first consideration is your aesthetic preferance. If you like the yellow leaf effect, you would need to go with the or nm option. If you would like to shoot regular color shots, with white leaves and blue skies, then the nm filter is probably right for you.

With these enhanced color filters, you will have an increased color range to work with. With processing, it is possible to desaturate photos from these two filters to look like the nm image.

This adds some more flexibility when shooting, and allows for good color results in some shooting situations that would not work so well with the standard nm filter. Another really nice benefit with these filters is that you can use higher cutoff IR filters over them.

For example, with a nm conversion you could use a nm, nm and still take handheld pictures that will look exactly like the higher cutoff filter.

Another downside is that cameras will have a harder time setting a white balance with the enhanced color filters. These filters can be more unpredictable, yielding different results depending on camera model and shooting conditions. Another thing to watch out for, is that the nm and nm filter can be a little less sharp than the and nm filters. Since they let a wider spectrum of light in, there are more chromatic aberrations and a bit softer focus. On most compact cameras the replacement filters need to be very thin and will leak more visible light, so , , and filters can produce duller color.

The and filters will also leak a little visibe light. They will still be monochromatic but they may be red or blue tinged and require processing. To achieve a good false color effect with the and filters, a custom white balance is crucial.

You should not order these filters if your camera does not have a custom WB option. Also, just because your camera has a custom white balance setting, does not guarantee that you can achieve images like above with these filters.

Camera white balances were not made to work in infrared, and the camera may not be able to measure a white balance properly leaving you with unexpected results. The filter can still be used to get good false color results even with automatic white balance, although the results are not quite as reliable. The full spectrum, or clear filter, does not have many distinct uses on its own, but rather it gives you the flexibility to switch between different external infrared filters and still shoot handheld.

It makes the camera sensitive to visible, infrared, and UV light. See our Full Spectrum article to see when you should consider full spectrum as an option. Two spectrum is our new unique conversion that makes the camera sensitive to visible and infrared light and blocks UV light. If you do not plan to shoot UV, this is the best option and gives better color rendition for visible light photography.

See our Two Spectrum article to see when you should consider a two spectrum conversion as an option. Really nice article. For some reason the hotspot are very large, A hexagon in the center and a wide line across the horizon. Thanks for that informative article, it helps a lot.

Currently I am thinking to convert Nikon D My interests are between and Can you please recommend the best grade for D, based on already converted users feedback and also with your invaluable know-how? Thanks, hary. The or will both work on the D, but the D will unfortunately not set a white balance with either filter. You would need to shoot RAW and set a custom white balance in software to get false color.

Yes the A55 will white balance well with the filter. Just be careful about the SLT system. What are your thoughts on the Olympus EM 5 mark 2 with a filter. Will I have white balance problems, and what do you think about shooting video in IR?

Thank you. Would that work well? I can set custom WB in the a7r and that has worked well for other applications such as shooting stars at night. Am I correct in understanding that if my camera is converted to nm I can gain the effects of , and upwards by simply adding a special filter to the lens?

What if any are the drawbacks in doing this? That is correct. You would need to use live view to compose and autofocus with a filter on the lens. On a mirrorless camera there are no drawbacks. The Blue IR filter would not work over the , that is a multi-bandpass filter that only works on full spectrum. This means it was post processed to swap the channels. Usually this involves remapping red to blue, and blue to red, to make the red sky that you see directly out of the camera look blue.

We have several tutorials on how this works and several actions that make it a one click process in Photoshop. I use Capture One for all my post processing. Question: other than more color being passed in the nm, what are the main differences between the nm and the nm?

By the examples given, it seems that foliage is redder in nm than in nm; is this because of the way it was post-processed or it is inherent to the filter itself? In other words: in nm the same foliage will show up red and in the nm in yellow?