curious Ken, what is the better result for you, with or without?
Houghy, I find the stars in the IR Cut images just a tad sharper than the Toucam filter images, but not by much.
The 'No Filter' images really have stunning nebula, but horrid stars, so I'd say I'd go with the little Toucam Filter. It would be nice if I could get the natural colours (or any colours!) with the IR filter. Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong, or the Toucam filter is balanced to the Toucam chip
i just edited all your pics to greyscale and was about to post the same thing lol
It pays to Google!!!!!
Look what I just found on a site about using IR filters with CCD chips:
Is there such a thing as a Color IR Filter? No. Visible light goes from violet at 350nm to red at 780nm. Color doesn't exist for humans or the camera in IR which is over 780nm. The camera only sees Black & White in the IR region. The closest thing to color is some of the $10,000 heat sensitive, cooled cameras which re-map the IR information into the color range.
And this statement (except in my case it's BLUE):
How come my camera shows a green picture if IR is Black & White? Because Sony thinks it looks better. Green is in the middle of the color range.
i dont see how though, isnt the idea of the IR cut filter to block IR and let everything else through normally?
if you hold the filter up to a light does it look blue? if not then its something funky with the toucam
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