Most Popular Cameras for Infrared Photography


Most Popular Cameras for Infrared Photography

Here are the most popular infrared cameras from major brands, including Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, and Sony. I’ll also show the best options across sensor sizes: full-frame, APS-C, Micro Four Thirds, and medium-format. Find out which cameras photographers trust most for infrared photography.

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Infrared Book International Shipping Available

Color Doesn’t Exist is an informative and pleasantly readable guide for the novice but certainly also the advanced (amateur) photographer who wants to study and start in infrared photography. It is also a comprehensive reference work. To anyone interested in infrared photography, I can recommend the book. Michel

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For Sale - Fujifilm X-T20 590nm Infrared Converted

My 590nm infrared-converted Fujifilm X-T20 is available for sale. See pictures of the camera and the images it has taken here. Details here.

Gear

Camera Conversions & Infrared Filters

Raw Editors

  • ON1 Photo RAW Get 20% off with code ROBSHEA20
  • DxO PhotoLab Easy-to-use infrared raw editor; recommend Elite Edition.
  • Nik Collection Plugin suite for Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and more.

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Rob Shea

Learn infrared photography with video tutorials, photo shooting and editing guides, tips, tricks, raw editor reviews, and product reviews. Get free downloads to help you to process infrared images. Learn new techniques to simplify the complex editing workflow for color infrared images in Adobe Lightroom and other raw editors. Rob wrote the book on infrared photography, a definitive guide for photographers new to and experienced with infrared photography. Sign up for the newsletter! You can see the prior newsletters below.

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