Public Lab Research note


Canon SD4000IS as Infragram

by warren | August 08, 2014 18:50 08 Aug 18:50 | #11023 | #11023

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

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http://infragram.org/i/53e519440ab503231b000c15

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Questions and next steps

It'd be more ideal to test these in a grassy field, but these are encouraging!


9 Comments

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:

colormap = segmented_colormap([[0, [0, 0, 255], [38, 195, 195]], [0.5, [0, 150, 0], [255, 255, 0]], [0.75, [255, 255, 0], [255, 50, 50]]]);

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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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.

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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.

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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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I get it now. Your translation is good. The blue is actually a light blue, I think [140 140 255] at 0.56. And I put pure green in there explicitly at 0.63 instead of deriving it from a gradient from light blue to yellow (at 0.75). Red is at 0.94.

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OK - try it out! I don't think it works in the WebGL version but in the basic version it should: http://infragram.org/sandbox/

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Good stuff.

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