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Canon Powershot A200 Infrared Sensitivity

Camera: Canon Powershot A200
Filter: none
Shutter speed: 1/635.83
F-stop: 5.6
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 5.000
White balance: Automatic
EV: 14.2837
Camera: Canon Powershot A200
Filter: Heliopan 715nm IR pass filter
Shutter speed: 1/3.36
F-stop: 2.8
ISO speed: 400
Focal length: 5.0000
White Balance: Automatic
EV: 2.720
Extremely insensitive to IR light, especially for such a low-cost camera. The camera needs the pseudo manual mode to use longer shutter speeds and higher ISO. The colours are very nice when using a different white balance. No tripod mount which makes shooting IR a problem with this camera :(


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