Canon XL1S & Infrared

[Joey Ketcham]

I'm curious, is it possible to get the XL1S to see infrared light when used at night? I've done some googling and have not yet found anything of help.

Joey

 

[John Diel]

Since IR (Infra-Red) is in the "invisible" spectrum and the older XL1 and XL1s were not designed to display that spectrum, it's rather doubtful.

The only possibility would be a filter that would gather the IR light and bring it to the visible spectrum. The CCD's are not equiped that I know of to handle the straight up IR to Visible tranlastion.

I don't know if such a filter even exists. There are "add-on's" for night image intesification and possibly IR applications though. Here's what I found:

http://www.electrophysics.com/Browse/Brw_ProductLineCategory.asp?Area=NV&CategoryId=30