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Free Infrared Camera
I hope it is okay to do this. I want to give away a camera, but prefer that it go to someone who contributes to this thread. If I need to take this post down and post to Buy & Sell, please let me know.
If you have ever been interested in infrared photography, but didn't want to invest the money just to see if you like it, have I got a deal for you! I have a Nikon D70 that has been converted to 720nm infrared and I'm giving it away to someone on this thread. I will draw the name of one lucky winner on the evening of Sunday, Oct. 2. Shipping within the CONUS is free. If you live outside of the USA, all I ask is that you pay for actual shipping.
All you have to agree to is that if you decide that infrared isn't for you or maybe you just don't use the camera because you transitioned to a more modern IR camera, you will pay it forward. You may not sell the camera. It must be given away.
Things to know about shooting IR on a D70:
1) There's no such thing as live view on a D70. You have to frame through the viewfinder.
2) Metering: the meter is pretty accurate, but I would advise that after taking a photo, you review the photo and look at the histogram to gauge your exposure. Rely on the histogram, not the image on the screen on the back of the camera.
3) Lenses: the D70 will use AI, D, G, and AF-S lenses. Assuming you want to use manual focus lenses, the lens must be an AI, AI-S, or factory converted to AI. Do not use non-AI lenses on this camera. If you convert the lens to AI yourself, you must make it a full conversion. It's not enough to remove the area of the aperture ring at the top of the lens for the indexing tab, you must also remove the area of the aperture ring at the bottom of the ring. If you look at the front of the camera, there is a tab at about the 8:00 position. If you don't remove the part of the aperture ring that is in this area, you will break the camera. There are instructions on the internet that show you how to do this. It's not hard, but it must be taken into account if you are going to convert a non-AI lens to AI yourself.
4) Focusing: the camera is calibrated to use the Nikon G 18-55mm lens. I have found that most manual focus lenses will give good results just by focusing using the green dot. If you don't know what I'm talking about, a green dot will light up in the viewfinder when you achieve focus. I advise that you focus with the lens wide open. Once you get the green dot, stop down to your desired f-stop. Some lenses will require that you adjust your focus slightly to get pin-sharp photos. You'll just have to experiment with your lenses. I find that as long as I stop down to f/5.6 or f/8, I get acceptable results. Shooting wide open may give different results.
5) Images: the images straight out of the camera and on the screen on the back of the camera will look horrible. They will have a very red color cast. Do some research on how to convert IR images to black and white or on how to convert to color with false colors. I can point you to some websites with instructions. Also, this is a 6.1MP camera.
6) What's included: Nikon D70 IR, Nikon battery, 3rd party charger, several compact flash cards, USB cable
If, after reading all of this, you are still interested, send me a PM. I will list the names of those that PM me in this message. The cutoff for entry is 5:00 p.m. in the Eastern Time Zone on Sunday, Oct. 2. I will draw a name sometime that evening and contact the winner. Once the winner accepts, I will post the name of the winner to the thread.
Thanks and good luck!
List of those in the drawing
Chris Dees
Here is an image of the St. Simons Island, GA lighthouse taken with this camera.
D70 IR-102321-0032_Web by Scott Poupard
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