What I want to do
We'd struggled a year ago to get a CMOS-sensor based Canon SD4000IS working as an Infragram modified camera, so when @nedhorning, @mathew and @cfastie posted about the red filter Infragram technique, I was eager to see if that could get this excellent camera working. You can read more about Mathew and Chris's research here: http://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/04-30-2014/rosco-replacements-for-wratten-25a-pt-2
My attempt and results
My SD4000IS already had its infrared block filter removed, so I just taped a piece of Rosco Fire filter over the front. It seems to have worked very well! Much better differentiation than with a blue filter:
http://infragram.org/i/53e519b10ab503231b000c17 (lead image)
http://infragram.org/i/53e519870ab503231b000c16
http://infragram.org/i/53e519440ab503231b000c15
Questions and next steps
It'd be more ideal to test these in a grassy field, but these are encouraging!
I will have to see if Fiji can output the values for a lut. Fiji has a GUI lut editor, so I have no idea what the values are. Maybe Ned can help. Here is my lut in the editor:
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I was hoping to post a note on this lut. I just tried to attach the lut file to this comment but dragging it here seemed to make somebody mad.
we only accept certain types of files for upload, for security reasons. I can add .lut, is it an image file or a text file?
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I'm not sure what a Fiji lut file is. Might be binary. I got the values into a tab delimited text file.
NDVI_VGYRM-lut.txt
And I was able to circumvent the dastardly security measures to attach it here.
I guess it might be easy for certain people to make this usable at infragram.org. I wouldn't know.
But this is a very new lut and I am just starting to put it to use and evaluate it. So I will post a note about it and see if people have opinions.
Whoa... no, a bit tough to use. If you can describe it as a sequence of colors, the format I mentioned will interpolate gradients between them. Just looking at yours, it seems like it could be:
0: white
0.167: black
0.33: white
0.5: black
0.55: blue
0.7: yellow
0.9: red
1.0: magenta
what do you think?
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Your new Infragram SD4000 seems to have promise. Here is one with my new lut:
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Oh cool! do you want to post your LUT in a numeric format so we can post it as an Infragram.org option?
The format is:
where the outermost
[ ]contain a set of[x-position,[r,g,b]]items -- x-position measured from 0-1.And a name for your LUT and a place to link to for more information about it. Maybe http://publiclab.org/wiki/infragram-luts ?
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