Humans can see .0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Why the fuck in the year 2023 can I not buy cameras that can see into the rest of it?
I want a camera that can see radio waves, gamma rays, xrays etc.
How do I acheive this?
I feel like i am missing out of what 99.9965 of the world looks like.
>I want a camera that can see radio waves, gamma rays, xrays etc.
They already can. But you can't.
thats ok, ill take a conversion into the visable spectrum, I just want to see how all those other wavelengths look.
like how does the world around me look in just gamma rays? or just in xrays?
A black and white conversion of that is fine.
>like how does the world around me look in just gamma rays? or just in xrays?
dark
>x-rays
Film can already "see" some of these. Digital cameras, with relatively inexpensive mods, can cover UVB to deep infrared. Essentially anything higher energy than visible light will show up on a modified digital camera. It's more a question of whether you get an intelligible image. There are lots of devices that can see microwaves, just not consumer cameras.
After doing more research we are clearly missing out on existing colours being stuck in our narrow band.
Image seeing a bright antenna pumping out a huge glow of radio waves that then washes over everything creating strange light and shadows, it would interact differently with objects to how light does. It sounds pretty cool to see.
>Image seeing a bright antenna pumping out a huge glow of radio waves that then washes over everything creating strange light and shadows
you clearly don't understand how electromagnetic waves work
>Image seeing a bright antenna pumping out a huge glow of radio waves that then washes over everything creating strange light and shadows
People would wake up to the reality of 5G.
That it gets cucked real hard by air?
of course you can, it's just expensive and might need some DIY rigging if sensor is a spot measurement device and not a full array of them. you can start with removing infrared filter in your camera, or by buying thermal camera
>imagine being trapped repetitively in a human meatsuit and forced only to see a limited fraction of the spectrum
such is Samsara life bros
Blessed digits.
>Samsara
Overrated movie, had no fucking plot.
kek
>picrel, me sleeping comfortably, being photographed by alsome
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fr fr they should've thrown in an iron man battle or quip or two
>implying you get to keep your human meatsuit
To completely experience the light spectrum, there is first another spectrum you must fully embrace within yourself...
I think millimeter wave street photography is where it's at.
That'd be equivalent to pointing a regular camera towards a bunch of lightbulbs in the fog
>Why the fuck in the year 2023 can I not buy cameras that can see into the rest of it?
are you telling me you are not able to find infrared cameras and thermal cameras online? LOL
you can do a full-spectrum mod of your camera pretty easily, and put a ~750-900nm highpass filter over the lens to image infrared. CMOS sensors are actually really sensitive to infrared light so you can easily image those spectra with a modified consoomer dSLR. same for UV, except they're a little less sensitive and you obviously need a ~450nm lowpass filter instead.
for the extreme ends of the electromagnetic spectrum (xrays, radio) you need more specialized equipment designed to record those wavelengths. remember a camera is simply a sensor that maps electromagnetic disturbances to pixels in a bitmap.
every camera with a CMOS is just a neutered infrared imager. they put ~650nm lowpass filters in front of the sensors of consumer dSLR's so normies don't freak out if their pictures are tinted red.
there's software and hardware that renders the relative luminosity into a visual image. all a radio does is pick up AM/FM disturbances and demodulates it into sound. there's no reason the same sensor (in this case, a radio antenna) couldn't demodulate a frequency into light.
people send pictures over shortwave radio all the time. it's just a signal that you can decode into any medium you want depending on your level of autism.
>~750-900nm highpass filter over the lens to image infrared
>same for UV, except they're a little less sensitive and you obviously need a ~450nm lowpass filter instead
It's called longpass and shortpass. 'high' and 'low' refer to frequency and would block the opposite of the spectrum sides that you mean
naturally, it would be opposite for electronics and optics. you know what i mean though, shine a 660/740nm light array at some leaves or blood, and capture everything above 900nm or so
full spectrum conversion will let you see some IR and UV, but sensor still doesn't see all of the light
super low frequency stuff like radio will be especially difficult to see because there is a relationship between wavelength and size of detector, you need a huge antenna, an extremely small photosite won't do
this, basically with low energy you just feel the photonic flow instead of harvesting the photons in a well
Kolari Vision will get you UV + IR. UV itself is pretty wild.
God bless the American education system.
Hey dummy, you know how all of those radio wavelengths are orders of magnitude larger than visible light? That is their smallest possible resolution. That's why radio passes right through your walls. They're essentially invisible. Radio would not give you the kind of detail you're envisioning.
Also, you can already detect radio. It's called... a radio. There is no visible component of radio.
>There is no visible component of radio.
TV?
Fuck imagine seeing tv shows flying through the air, would be a cool photo.
>what are radiotelescopes
moopcosisters... we got too cocky
We make radio images already, on space telescopes.
https://tenor.com/fi/search/thermal-vision-fart-gifs
>this right in the middle of it all
Sums it up
God help us if snakes with their heat vision are actually sentient. They've been laughing at us. Thank fuck the IR GFX100s is military/professional use only. This 100% explains why fuji refuses to sell it to plebs.
because you could photograph what moves beyond our visible spectrum..i.e. UFO's, Aliens and other stuff. THEY don't want you to see what's really going on.
You'd do better by leaning how to create frequency spectrums instead of photographing radio waves, anon.
Anything higher energy than UV-A and UV-B you don't want to be around for extended periods of time. Anything longer than IR can't really be imaged by "normal" cameras. You need fancy dish based antennas to do that.
UV is hard to image, bc glass absorbs it, so you need super expensive quartz lenses, but its doable, just very expensive. UV imaging is used all the time forensics.
IR is also doable, especially with film or a converted sensor. All digital sensors have a IR blocking filter bc it fucks with color reproduction, but can be removed for less than 1k. Buying IR film and IR filter would be cheaper in the short run.
>you need super expensive quartz lenses
oh fugg i totally forgot about this. doesn't seem to be a HUGE issue with a single piece of glass in the UV-A/B range, but for microscopy, i might be a bit fugged. lots of glass throughout the optical path
re: camera modding, it's pretty easy to do yourself, just invest in a real filter to replace the stock one over the CMOS:
https://www.astronomik.com/de/mc-glass-for-dslr-astromodification/mc-glass-for-dslr-astromodification/astronomik-mc-klarglas-for-canon-eos-1100d-1200d.html
lifepixel has guides for many cameras:
https://www.lifepixel.com/tutorials/infrared-diy-tutorials
just don't forget to use a hair dryer or something to loosen any adhesive on the stock filter, and keep some air source to blow any dust off the naked sensor. also, i find it helpful to handle the sensor assembly with gloves
>invest in a real filter to replace the stock one over the CMOS:
Why? To fix focus or to protect it or something?
both. i suppose you could leave it naked, but it's such a sensitive component that i personally wouldn't want to do that. either way, modding a camera is usually no big deal
What you're describing is exactly why I got slightly brighter results when using a simple two-element lens ripped from a Polaroid Colorpack II. Always wanted to try a plastic lens. picrel
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there is no visual representation of what you think you want here
>Why the fuck in the year 2023 can I not buy cameras that can see into the rest of it?
Because of retards and society.
A few decades ago there was a camcorder with a dedicated infrared or UV mode. Just recently Huawei released a phone with something similar. Let you see through plastics and see circuitry inside remotes, and through some clothes.
People bitched about "muh privacy" and the tech is no longer available to the public. No laws were made just public pressure and companies cucking out.
my mistake
it was oppo
but I think Huawei might have bad one too.
how do i modify my dslr to do this?
I knew there would be good tech getting banned from consumers.
First you'll need to find out if your sensor is sensitive to those frequencies when naked, if so, you continue by removing your sensor filter, if you want to go the extra step of protecting the sensor, replace it with a quartz piece or some other clear material that doesn't absorb those wavelengths, then you'll need an objective made with quartz lenses, otherwise the lens is going to absorb the UV
you can achieve similar results just with an IR filter, long exposure and post-processing
You can but even a shitty chepest possible P&S modded will give good results compared to an unmodded camera with a _lot_ more convenience.
Modding Powershot A800: disassemble until you can remove the tiny thin filter and toss it or replace with same size piece of ir pass gel filter then reassemble the camera. Cameras with thick ir cut filter may need same thickness replacement filter of clear glass.
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That's not IR, that's the red channel extract from RGB in a RAW.
For anyone wondering, near-IR film can still be bought widely, Rollei Retro 400S is sold in most film shops in both 135 and 120. Its around ISO 20 with a 720nm filter factored in.