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I'd suggest looking at a Sigma sd Q kit with the 30mm lens and add a 17-70 f/2.8-4 OS C.
That will give you live view functionality. The focus peaking is iffy at best when a IR pass filter is used.
Remove the dust cover, and you get full spectrum IR. Add an external "hot mirror" filter and you are back to color only.
Live view looks different with the dust cover removed or that condition plus an IR pass filter.
The Sigma SD1M DSLR has a different imaging sensor, lacks live view, but has the same removable IR blocking dust filter, as do the earlier generation DSLR's.
The new Sigma Global Vision lenses seem to AF well in IR on the sd Q. The SD1M has a different AF sensor and it seems to do better, but that camera lacks live view.
Sigma's processing software is certainly different, but it works acceptably well.
I know that this isn't the answer you are looking for, but I'd suggest looking into Sigma cameras for IR unless you already own a Canon to cannibalize.
Sometimes, the SD1M shows up for under 1k on that big auction site, new in box.
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