#HACKS TO CONVERT SLIDES TO DIGITAL HOW TO#

and the backside with 15 ohm resistors, which were to be replaced. So, what I needed was 5 infrared leds and 5 resistors of 330 ohm. WellвЂ¦ an infrared camera is fun, but you definitely need some kind of infrared lightsource to make it really fun and (a little bit) more usable :-) So, looking around for parts which would enable me to perform such a taskвЂ¦ I ended up looking at one of my hand-crank-flashlights (which I also used as a power-source to my iPod) and that seemed quite an ideal basis for this, having 5 white leds as a light-source already, how hard can it be to exchange them for infrared leds? A little investigation told me an infrared led takes around 2 volts, while a white led takes around 3.5 voltsвЂ¦ (actually, itвЂ™s the guy at my local (and favourite!) electronics-store who tells me these kind of things, so I donвЂ™t even have to google for these answers :-) ). this is the actual pic made with the infrared camera.

and my CRT-monitors donвЂ™t display a picture at all, when viewed in infrared onlyвЂ¦ The filter in the end consisted of two layers of film-negative and, to be honest, it took me about 15 attempts of making a filter and place it without fingerprints or other dirt, on to the CCD-chip (and yes, that meant 15 times of opening up and closing the camera before I could test yet another filterвЂ¦ -))Д«utвЂ¦ in the end, we have a working filter in place! Time to close the camera for the last timeвЂ¦ДЇirst test-pictureвЂ¦ Tux looks a little white in infraredвЂ¦ and this is what my table looked liked, once I had a working filter. Here you can see the IR-filter, consisting of a little piece of glass and some rubber and one of my earliest attempts of making an evenly sized filter myself. Luckily the trick of using filmnegatives for this was mentioned in the Infra Red Webcam How-to, so credit where credit is due. time to make another filter, we want one which will block all visible light but wonвЂ™t block infrared light.

#HACKS TO CONVERT SLIDES TO DIGITAL HOW TO#

I looked quite long at this, trying to find a solution how to get the filter off, in the end I could just pry it off by using my fingernailвЂ¦ and a pic from the side, where you can see thereвЂ™s actually a small glassplate (the filter) on top of the CCD-chip. and another pic, where you can see the special glow this filter gives. Here you can see the CCD-chip with the infrared filter on top. I had to make a custom screwdriver to be able to get this tube, which normally holds the lens-assembly, off. The lens-assembly as a whole could come off and then you get a peek at the CCD and the reddish glow you see in this picture is actually from the infrared filterвЂ¦ Luckily I managed to get it back together, working and allвЂ¦ phewвЂ¦ I went looking for an infrared-filter in the lens-assemblyвЂ¦ which I took apart in the next pictureвЂ¦ which in the end didnвЂ™t seem necessary. Warning Here is where I went wrong in the beginning, but well, you can also learn from other peoples mistakes, so thatвЂ™s why I post these pics here. These terminals are connected to a huge capacitor on the other side of the PCB and believe me, you donвЂ™t want that to discharge on you! But hey, itвЂ™s 2005 and 1.3 megapixel isnвЂ™t that impressive anymore :-)ДЇirst look inside, you can see the display and the smartmedia-reader.ДЄDDED: a safety tip, tape of those two terminals (I put a blue circle around them on the above pic). ItвЂ™s a camera I always enjoyed using, a perfect point&click camera where you hardly could go wrong. The cameraвЂ¦ In my case a Fuji FinePix 1300. I showed it at the Faire and now you can see it here too! The whole idea is just that a lot of people probably have old cameras laying around, collecting dust, so why not make one of your old cameras an infrared one?ДЄctually, this is a project I finished just before The Make Faire. 24 October 2005, 00:47 by mark hoekstra how-to turn a digital camera into an IR-cameraДЇirst of all, I know this has been done before ( with webcams for example), but I thought it would be nice to give you an extensive insight view of how I transferred my old digital camera (which would probably fetch only $30 on ebay or such) into a infrared camera.

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