Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 12MP Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Converted to 580nm Infrared with 8GB SD Card, Battery and Charger.
Used working condition . Screen has a cluster of dead pixels- see image.
Shutter count only 540actuations.
IR Cut filter on a sensor is replaced with 580nm IR pass filter. It means that you don't need any filter on a lens to get infrared images and camera will work with standard exposure times as normal camera. However you still can use 720nm, 850nm or 920nm filters on a lens but in this case exposure times will be extended.
It will work with any MFT lens however some may produce hotspots. I tried with Panasonic 14-42mm, 14-45mm, Olympus 30mm, Olympus 14-150mm and there were no hotspots, but Laowa 7.5mm and Olympus 45mm f/1.8 had hotspots.
White balance must be set to Custom where you record uniform colour card or just grass.
White balance affects final image look.
There is few important steps to do to be able to process images correctly.
1. Create Camera Lens profile in Adobe Lightroom
1.1 Open RAW image in Lightroom and Export it as DNG to known location.
1.2 Open exported DNG file in DNG Profile Editor and set White Balance to -100 in Colour Matrices and export profile to Lightroom folder.
1.3. Open Lightroom.
1.4 Import Develop Profiles to Lightroom
1.5 Restart Lightroom
1.6 Open image in Lightroom and select newly created Camera Profile and Apply it.
2. Process image in Photoshop
2.1 Swap Red and Blue Channels
2.2 Create Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer and adjust Hue to Blue
2.3 Open Camera RAW Filter and adjust Hue, Saturation and Luminescence for separate colours in Colour Mixer.
It is creative process but very pleasing.
Take images in a bright sunshine with blue sky to get best results.
Don't expect to have beautiful images straight out of the camera- a lot of creative post processing required :) . Don't be afraid to break the rules :)
P.S. It is very addictive- don't say that I did not warn you :)
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