View single post by Robert

Posted: Mon Apr 22nd, 2013 15:38

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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I have a D1-IR, in my opinion it's rather lacking in resolution. I have a spare D1x body, it depends how good you are with your fingers, I have opened up D1 and D1x with no difficulty. There are two companies in US who do the conversions or sell the filters. The 'standard' IR filter is 720nM, from memory. You can go as weak as 650Nm or as hard as 800nM I think, It's a while since I was checking these figures.

I have a good friend, Dr. Klaus Schmitt, ( http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.co.uk ) in Germany who may be able to help you and there is also a company in the UK who fit the filters.

The toughest part is getting the filter in in perfectly clean conditions, if you trap a dust bunny behind the filter you may have to pull it out, clean it and re-assemble. The D1x and D1 both have the same filter size. I would like to convert a D200, I already have a D200-UV version, I feel the D200 is a very suitable body for conversion but it's not a DIY job on the D200. Eric had a D200 converted and it took quite a bit of work to get it right.

Please forgive my ignorance but what is a "slrN" ? I have seen you mention it several times but I don't recognise the term.

This Rudbeckia was taken with my D1-IR and (probably) Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Micro.

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