On a side note. I just picked up a small 3 LED hat light that is labeled UV blacklight for $10 at my local Wal-Mart. Pretty cool little light.

Weird, I picked up the same one last week. Don't take the cover off unless you are prepared to catch the battery. I did so in my work car several nights ago and the battery went flying out into the darkness. I can only assume it found it's way into the black hold between seats, hehe.

Cool, I should be able to make a filter out of an old pair of sunglasses then. Thanks.

I would try experimenting with and without. Different cameras act differently, even when using the homemade exposed film filters, some cameras have to have two layers while others do fine with just one. BTW, after looking around on youtube, it seems like a large number of the aiptek cameras have good IR sensitivity, and can perform well with just an IR filter over the lens.

Also, if interested, the following cameras are suitable for IR conversion, relatively cheap, and somewhat easy to convert to IR.

SVP DC-120X (This is platform for moditronic IR conversion and deep IR conversion)

SVP-T400 camcorder (moditronic platform for IR and Full Spectrum camcorder)

Digital Innovations DCI 87690

Argus DC5195

good luck

Andy

That should work just fine, and in effect, act like a niteshot brand camera, in that it uses visible light when available. The only reason I like to use IR filters is that I want to eliminate as much visible light possible so that I can be confident that the anomaly was viewed in exclusively the IR spectrum.

Cool, I should be able to make a filter out of an old pair of sunglasses then. Thanks.

Andy,

quick question. On a cheap webcam where you take the IR filter out and replace it with polarized lens. Would a lens from a pair of sunglasses work as well? They make polarized sunglasses and was just curious. I did some minor repairs to one of my webcams by taking the filter out. I'm leaving it just as right now to experiment with.

That should work just fine, and in effect, act like a niteshot brand camera, in that it uses visible light when available. The only reason I like to use IR filters is that I want to eliminate as much visible light possible so that I can be confident that the anomaly was viewed in exclusively the IR spectrum.

quick question. On a cheap webcam where you take the IR filter out and replace it with polarized lens. Would a lens from a pair of sunglasses work as well? They make polarized sunglasses and was just curious. I did some minor repairs to one of my webcams by taking the filter out. I'm leaving it just as right now to experiment with.

Anyway, here is the AIPTEK hack that I did (according to Mr. Fitgerald's vidcast) with photos:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.....fm?fuseact...logId=475779825

(btw, ignore photos at end of blog, I have since found the focus "sweet spot" and you can see this camera at its full potential on my flickr page at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/o.....obouros2k2...57619270744236/ )

Thanks,

Andy