Infrared Conversions Blog

Introduction Photographers most often shoot infrared during sunny days to catch the maximum infrared light from the sun. However, the sun is not the only source of infrared light, and it is also possible to practice infrared photography at night within several parameters. We will see in this tutorial how it is possible to shoot infrar...

The Fujifilm X-T3 that we tore down last week is now a fully capable, full-spectrum camera. As we did with the Nikon Z7 and EOS R, we'll be putting the X-T3 through our full set of infrared photography tests. We'll test the X-T3 for user-friendliness with respect to IR photography, infrared color performance, sensor artifacts, light lea...

You might have thought the Fujifilm X-T series was finished with the release of the X-H1, that Fujifilm was digging into the competition and leaving their love of style behind as was evident with that monstrosity. (We mean that lovingly.) But, the X-T3 is here, and it's as beautiful as ever. Not only that, but the X-T3 even outperforms th...

Now that our Canon EOS R is back in one piece (see our EOS R Teardown article here), we can test its performance for infrared photography. Just like our last infrared photography review of the Nikon Z7, we'll be testing for user-friendliness with respect to IR photography, infrared color performance, sensor artifacts, light leaks, hot sp...

The Canon EOS R was cause for some internal controversy here at Kolari Vision. After all, we're in the middle of The Great Mirrorless Camera War. Tensions are bound to rise, turning brother against brother, camera tech against camera tech, and photographer against photographer. Despite this, I will do my best to describe the form factor...

Now that we've had a good look at the Nikon Z7, both inside and out, let's see how it stacks up for infrared photography. For testing, we're using the same Nikon Z7 from our teardown article (which you should read if you haven't already), converted to full-spectrum with our whole range of infrared filters. Our main focus areas are ease-of...

Our brand new Nikon Z7 full frame mirrorless camera arrived at the office this week, and we immediately got down to business. Four years ago, Sony fired the first shot of this battle with the A7 and continued to release one iteration after another, each improving on the last, and did so completely unanswered by the competition until Augus...

The 2019 Kolari Vision “Life in Another Light” Infrared Photo Contest (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Kolari Vision LLC (“Sponsor”). ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: $1,000 Kolari Vision Gift Card and $1,000 cash prize delivered via Paypal. FOUR (4) FIRST-PLACE PRIZES: 1st-Place Prize Landscape: $1,000 Kolari Vision Gift Card 1st-Place ...

Introduction Luminosity masks are a powerful tool for Infrared photography processing . Based on the light repartition in RGB channels, they allow precise parts of a picture to be selected. Due to the specific way infrared light is recorded by digital camera sensors, luminosity masks are also a powerful tool to process effectively and pr...

The final hurdle to mastering infrared photography is post-processing. Once you figure out how to set custom a white balance for each different infrared filter, the properties of infrared light, and how to best compose your infrared shots with your specific camera model, there is still the business of editing those raw, out-of-camera infr...

As a girl I would linger hours in a fantasy world of faraway galaxies, cloud gazing, enchanted forests, and so on. Growing a bit older I immersed myself in the worlds of books and music, keeping company with words and rhythms. Then at some point in my teens I came upon my father’s old 1960’s Kodak Instamatic camera (I still have it, t...

What are infrared hotspots? If you've ever shot infrared photography, you've probably run into hotspots before, and they probably ruined more than a few of your shots. If you haven't seen them, a hotspot is a bright spot that forms in the center of the image. In general, some lenses form hotspots, while some do not. Hotspots will get mor...