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Nikon NIRLS 14mm f1.2 (for Klaus :-)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:57 am    Post subject: Nikon NIRLS 14mm f1.2 (for Klaus :-) Reply with quote

I know Klaus is more of a UV guy, but what do you think about this IR lens? It's Buy It Now for a lowly 150,000 yen (1,500USD-ish) Very Happy


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice, if you have a thermal camera. Predictably not useful with film, given the system it was for: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/1998/lairds270_98.htm

Sevo


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sevo wrote:
Nice, if you have a thermal camera. Predictably not useful with film, given the system it was for: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/1998/lairds270_98.htm

Sevo



Wouldn't it work with IR film and/or IR-modded DSLR sensors? Mind you, I haven't a clue, but I can't see why it would NOT work. I mean, it's still a lens, right? (with some kind of coating, which I'm guessing is an IR filter).


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rawhead wrote:
Sevo wrote:
Nice, if you have a thermal camera. Predictably not useful with film, given the system it was for: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/1998/lairds270_98.htm

Sevo



Wouldn't it work with IR film and/or IR-modded DSLR sensors? Mind you, I haven't a clue, but I can't see why it would NOT work. I mean, it's still a lens, right? (with some kind of coating, which I'm guessing is an IR filter).


My dear friend, thanks for thinking about me, but you will have a very hard time trying to look through a GERMANIUM lens. It is designed for 2-14microns usually.

That same lens was sold on ebay a few months ago, with hardly any watchers for some $300 or so. Nikon discontinued that camera quite a while ago, as Sevo has also pointed to in his link.

Modded for IR DSLR (be it CCD or CMOS) do max 1000-1100nm (= 1.0-1.1 microns) and even if it would work, how is focusing without seeing anything?


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DSLR with live-view wouldn't work?


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope. Even if DSLR sensors would work in that range, their own thermal emission would obliterate the image - CMOS sensors get quite hot, compared to the spectral range of thermal cameras and their lenses (the main effort inside thermal cameras is cooling).

Sevo


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for info.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sevo wrote:
Nope. Even if DSLR sensors would work in that range, their own thermal emission would obliterate the image - CMOS sensors get quite hot, compared to the spectral range of thermal cameras and their lenses (the main effort inside thermal cameras is cooling).

Sevo


Thanks that you answered Sevo, couldn't have put that better.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahh, OK, I understand. Thanks to both Klaus and Sevo for the interesting information!