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OK, your follow-up post has me a little confused now , but in keeping with my response to your initial post, here are two shots I took today, using in-camera B&W conversion of the IR images. I've not used the in-camera processing before). I had to tweak highlight brightness and overall contrast in post. The method delivers similar results but I think I'll just continue taking the false colour image directly to post and if it seems B&W might deliver a more appealing image, I'll do the conversion there.

Both of these were taken with K5 (Full Spectrum Modified) + DAL 18-55 + Hoya R72 filter.

I probably wasn't being clear. I meant I much prefer the final product to be black and white, however it gets there. Colour in IR photos looks weird to me. (But got into IR from black and white film, I'm biased!)

Those are great! Man, the K5 blows 35mm IR film out of the water for detail.

OK Gotcha! Thanks.

Forest beside the Princes Highway, NSW Far South Coast, Australia. A sitch of six portrait-format frames.



K5 (Full Spectrum Converted) with Soligor 28mm f2.8 (M42) @ f8 and Hoya R72 (720nm) filter. Red/blue channel swap and B&W conversion in PSE13 (Mac).

Headland vegetation and vehicle track, Cuttagee, NSW Far South Coast, Australia.



K5 (Full Spectrum Conversion) + Soligor 28mm f2.8 @ f8 + Hoya R72 filter.

Well captured. Like it.

Years ago in film days I shot several rolls of Kodak IR transparency film - renowned for the rich reds of vegetation and the equally rich blue skies. I've just bought a copy of KolariVision's new IRchrome filter and I'm very pleased with it. Subjective I know, but hey .



This is a stitched panorama taken today using my Full Spectrum modified K5 fitted with an M 40/2.8 lens plus the new filter. I set a manual white balance for shooting. No other filters, no red/blue channel swap, nor use of selective colour sliders in post - just a bit of brightness/contrast tweaking. The vegetation is not as red as expected, nor the sky as dark, but that's easily remedied in post. I thought I'd just post an almost-out-of-the-camera image so those interested could assess the filter's value to their own circumstances.

Wow! Nice click. I am scratching my hands on the purchase.If I am in States, I would have already bought it, but they are charging $30 for shipping alone to India, which makes the cost too much. I have a trip planned by end of March, so thinking about buying one.

Thanks. Not cheap at all, even to land in Australia, but I'm very, very pleased with the results. I'll post a couple more examples tomorrow.

Here are some shots I've taken recently using the new KolariVision IRchrome filter on my Full Spectrum Converted K5. All clickable to access exposure info. etc on Flickr.



















A bit more colour play with this one to get the yellow foliage.

Awesome images Rod.


I especially like the orange foliage.

Thanks, great that you enjoyed them. I was pleasantly surprised by the new filter's response and the ease with which pleasing images can be produced with very little PP.

wow! nice set. Definitely looks promising, will pick one and ask them to send it to my friend in the states. Hope will get it by June, when rains starts here in India.

Here are a few recent images using the KolariVision IRchrome filter. All were taken with my Full Spectrum Converted K5 with smc PENTAX-DAL 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens. The first colour image is desaturated just a little. The B&W image was converted from a colour original using NIK Silver Efex Pro. Exposure info. is shown in the EXIF data on Flickr.

Ground level close-up of a Burrawong Palm seedling with K5 (full spectrum conversion) + DFA 50mm f2.8 Macro with Hoya R72 (720nm) filter. Processing in Photoshop Elements 13 (Mac).