By red I mean infrared. It’s that time of year when the IR converted Canon EOS 7D I purchased late last year comes out to play again. Not without issue, I’m afraid.
This camera body has wicked backfocus issues. The wide-to-medium angle lens is bad. The zoom lens is horrible. I haven’t looked into why this evening, it’s late, I’m tired and this falls under the category of tomorrow thing like other things have today. By other things I mean stuff I didn’t get done on the travel trailer. I kind of powered down this evening and decided I needed to play with a camera instead.
AB, 2025-05-30
Strathmore, AB, 2025-05-30
I needed trees to get the most out of this infrared camera body, Gray Park has those, and it’s only 20 minutes walk from my home. It seemed like a good deal to me and that’s where I wound up.
AB, 2025-05-30
AB, 2025-05-30
I decided tohave some fun with these and experimened with the colourize neural filter in Photoshop. I’m not sure I’m wild about the results, but nothing ventured, right? I didn’t really get a chance to explore this camera last year as it arrived so late in the season. I used an AI sharpening tool I keep on hand to bang today’s images into shape.
I’ll start getting this unit dialed in tomorrow starting with the backfocus problems. It’s been a while since I entered manual adjustments into a 7D body, but I’m pretty sure I remember how. I’ll get there and I’ll have fun doing it.
Today’s camera is an IR converted Canon EOS 7D courtesy of LifePixel and a Canon 17-85mm EF-S IS lens.