Comments | hirez: Phonecamera hackery

hirez

Phonecamera hackery

May 26, 2009 23:16

On Sunday, Jason (WISOLJ) handed me a lump of IR filter.

Today I cut off the sticky-out bit and gaffered it to the back of my Nokia.

( The results are about what you'd expect: )

looking at the wrong things, sparta prague, hacking of a different sort

Comments 11

jarkman May 26 2009, 22:46:38 UTC

Wonky! I may need to try this.

hirez May 26 2009, 23:09:58 UTC

It really needs a lot of light or some flavour of Aperture Priority.

quercus May 26 2009, 23:03:34 UTC

Hipster IR filter (for light sources, at least): slices of old floppy disk or magnetic tape.

e_spy May 27 2009, 10:07:06 UTC

And there I've been winging it with a chunk of exposed neg.

dan_lane May 26 2009, 23:30:09 UTC

That doesn't look right, are you sure the Nokia doesn't have an IR blocking filter in it (point an IR Remote at it and see if it lights up).

The camera we use to film Really Mobile has an awesome IR-based night mode... it's surprising some of the things (or rather, clothes) that become transparent when viewed that way.

steer May 27 2009, 08:39:50 UTC

Isn't that because night mode is much different to an IR filter since it has two components:
1) Detect IR
2) Shift IR into visible spectrum.

bogwitch64 May 27 2009, 00:13:47 UTC

That is pretty nifty.

nalsa May 27 2009, 07:44:31 UTC

Yes, you need a lot of light, but those chlorophyll-whites are cracking.