1st post!
Hmm…If I had enough money I have a purpose already in mind.

Posted at 12:35 am on Dec 21st, 2006 by nick

Oh man I own an a540 too.

I have some reading to do excuse me…

Posted at 9:11 am on Dec 21st, 2006 by strider_mt2k

and the point of this is?????

Posted at 12:54 pm on Dec 21st, 2006 by john

Not very original, but nice to know if you own that model. What would really be special is if they were publishing a large database of instructions on how to remove the IR filter on a wide variety of cameras. I have already pried the IR filter off of my backup CVS camcorder and am thinking about doing it to my ancient Kodak.

Posted at 1:40 pm on Dec 21st, 2006 by Pocketbrain

By doing this you make you camera become more sensitive to IR “Infrared”. To the typical photographer this is useless. BUT, to someone who couples their camera to a telescope this is great. You can pick up much fainter stars and galaxies.

This doing this to a camera that you will be using to take normal pictures is pointless. Unless you like looking at pics with a lot of red hue.

Posted at 1:41 pm on Dec 21st, 2006 by Aviator747

Hey, also, if you put a piece of developed film in as a new filter, it will filter out everything but IR light, giving you an entertaining toy. This is the kind of fun thing that one does to a cheap webcam though. I did that to one cheap webcam I have, and now it works excellently in low light, but the color is washed out and it is very gray. Entertaining toy though.

Posted at 6:35 pm on Dec 21st, 2006 by Captain Zeros

I just found it to be an interesting read.

My store has a demo a530 that the lens cover is failing on. If it gets much more banged up it might make for an inexpensive scratch and dent hacker that I can attach to our telescope.

Posted at 11:49 am on Dec 22nd, 2006 by strider_mt2k

I’ve done this with a cheapo Olympus. I wouldn’t dare do it to a new(ish) camera. I also added layers of congo blue filter inside the camera to make it IR-only. I think outdoor shots are way more interesting than indoor ones.

Posted at 5:00 pm on Dec 28th, 2006 by oscar

Hey. I have a canon IXUSV AiAF. I’m thinking about removing the IR filter but if I were to do so would it effect photos taken (apart from showing high temperatures and seeing IR better)? If so, how?

Also, could someone make a section for my camera model. I tried finding the lense assembely but had no luck (or gave up, I dont remember).

Regards,
EaglesNestOne

Posted at 1:46 am on Mar 10th, 2008 by EaglesNestOne

WOOT. I did this with a Samsung S850 that I fixed and it works perfectly. Also, if you don’t have negatives of pure white you can just open an old floppy and use some of the actual disk.

Regards,
EaglesNestOne

Posted at 4:28 pm on Mar 16th, 2009 by EaglesNestOne