Digital Infrared Photography Equipment

Digital Infrared Photography Equipment - how to get started!

Step 2: Digital Infrared Photography Equipment � A Few Critical Supplies

Have you checked to make sure your digital camera is able to take infrared photos? Excellent!

But before you can begin to click away, you�ll need some additional digital infrared photography equipment. Depending on your camera, you may need a few extras too.

The main accessories for digital infrared photography are a TRIPOD, and an INFRARED FILTER, that will block visible light but let the invisible infrared light pass through to the camera�s sensor.

The tripod is almost always a requirement to stabilize your camera, because the filter is so dense that your exposure will be very long � and camera shake will knock your images out of focus. When you look through an infrared filter, it is just about black, and you can barely see anything except the brightest objects (like the sun!) through it.

digital infrared filters

If you have a point & shoot digital camera, you will probably need an ADAPTER TUBE and a STEP UP RING to allow the filter to fit onto your camera.

Your set-up would look something like this:

Digital infrared camera equipment

The adapter tubes and rings aren�t too expensive. For my Olympus the tube was about $35.00 and the ring was about $15.00.

The filters are more expensive, ranging from $50.00 to a high of $135.00. If you shop on the Internet, I�ll be posting the best place I have found for filters of all kinds, as well as adapter rings and tubes, here in the next few weeks.

Now, go to page to be you to get the perfect digital infrared exposure - everytime! This explains things for D70 users but the techniques are the same no matter what camera you use.

You may have to adjust and fine tune, a bit but bracketing, white balance and angle of the sun are all consideratins regardless of your euipment. Back to Infrared Main Page