Opus Loc: South East Michigan

Has anybody here ever had a camera converted to infrared by Life Pixel? I have a D70 that I have used for infrared but want to be able to shoot it without external filters. Anybody who has done this knows why. Since the D70 is my third body I don't really need it anymore but before dumping $250 into it I was curious if anybody has experience with this with Life Pixel.

profpb Loc: Venice, Florida

LifePixel converted my D70 in January. Go to the website to decide on the color filter options. If you have the Nikkor 18-70 lens it is calibrated for that lens without sending in the lens with the camera. It is such a pleasure to be shooting IR and composing during the shot instead of before you put on the extenral IR filter. And I can now shoot handheld. I wrote three articles for the Ultimate Photo Guide website on IR if you are interested.

fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH

Had my nikon D50 done great way to have a use of older equipment. Great company very reliable.

Opus Loc: South East Michigan

Thanks profpb, off the camera goes this afternoon. I will also be using my 18-70 for infrared. I no longer use it but it is a wonderful lens, I can't believe Nikon sold it as a kit lens. I only have to choose which filter I am going to have installed. Enjoyed your articles, keep up the good work

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

I had my camera also a D70 converted by Life Pixel. It was fine. I used the standard filter i.e. 720. Vincent Versace who gave a workshop in black and white (at B&H) and shoots in infrared recommends the enhanced color filter. In short there is more info to convert to b&w. Also if you shoot in raw it's best to use nikon softwareNX2 or view to convert the raw file.
I love IR and just bought a new camera to convert to IR.
By the way Life Pixel charges extra to convert using enhanced color filters other companies charge the same for all filter conversions.