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Hey Mathieu, I'm a camera modification and optics technician. I absolutely love your content and how you portray infrared given how rarely it's shown online. I'm always excited to see you've posted a new video. Thank you for producing such niche, but widely appealing content.

This brings me back... I have accidentally discovered that floppy disk is a good IR pass filter some 20 years ago and used it to take my first IR photos with also amazing results. I am still using it in a modified webcam.

Hi Mathieu, I did this with an unexposed developed and thus black piece of slide film. Probably more easy to find than a floppy disk. Take at least one image with the lens cap on and shortest time and highest aperture value (or the camera body cap on) or develop a slide film without any picture taken. Use a medium format film or obove to have a larger sized piece.

Wow! This video title totally was a throwback for me. At one time I used a camera made my Sony called the Mavica. And, you actually did insert 3.5" floppies into the camera for image storage. Cool stuff!!

95 year old grandmother keeping floppies for sentimental reasons is the best thing i've heard all day ^_^

1:55 - "Красота - это ты", "Beauty - is you" Hahaha) I personally only used floppy to shoot an eclipse. That was... floppy! But results were awesome)

⭕ 30 % on My Infrared LUT : www.mathieustern.com/luts/infrared Please remember that this hack will only work on a full spectrum modified camera, check the first episode to know how to change your camera Episode I : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9Z8dbCdubfbepc.html

Man, I had stacks of them! Did my first projects in school with those. Soon after it was de 100mb zipdrive and on we went. And here I was thinking that taking photos through magnetic tapes of old cassettes was a crazy idea!

There definitely is a haze to the floppy look, but honestly still will give this a try! Awesome video! :D

Salut Mathieu! I must admit the results achieved with the floppy disc "filter" are pretty stunning. I wouldn't say they are better than those obtained with a pro filter, or the other way round. IMO it's simply different kind of [lo-fi] aesthetics.

To make things easier Haida filters has a rear camera lens adapter that you remove the three screws holding the back plastic of the lens and you put on a Haida filter holder and you can buy with it four graduated filters and also for night shots the Clear Night. There is also a template you can use to make your own filters out of materials like this floppy disk project. Also just for info if using a CPL on the front of a lens you have to use the 90 degree rule to prevent a center dark spot BUT if you use the Clear Night filter at the rear of a lens you get baby blue sky with no dark hump in the center, this is good for a pano making a bright sky darker all the way across every pano capture. I forgot to take the Clear Night filter out while doing a high noon scouting trip for a night milky way capture - accidents you learn from.

Grandma provides. Thanks for the new technique.

Thanks Mathieu, your content always keeps me inspired with photography as a medium. I appreciate your creativity when it comes to new ways of photographing

Floppy disk value just increased

Considering the rarity of floppy disks (you can still technically buy them new, but they are expensive, since you can't just buy one) it might actually be cheaper to go with an actual infrared filter, lol.

luckily i have a whole box of floppy disk

You are so creative, great video!

1:57 кто-то обрадовался увидев кириллицу?) Мне просто интересно сколько фотографов из СНГ смотрят Метью:)

Beauty is you. That's what is written on grand ma's laptop.

Awesome as usual! I love these experiments and ways to try expensive photography techniques in cheap, hacking ways. I suppose it still requires doing the IR hack on the camera itself though!

i should see if my FD mavica can see IR by default, it would be very funny to put a floppy disk filter onto a camera that writes to floppy disks (although it now has a flash adapter in it, and i imagine most other FD mavica owners also keep a flash adapter in it full time, since only six pictures fit on a disk.)

It`s so cute 1:58 - "Красота - это ты" (Beauty is you).

Oddly my dad being the tech hoarder that he was had kept some floppies around the house.

i liked the floppy disk better actually personally, it just had a softer, more relaxing vibe to it

Interesting experience that I'll try for sure. It looks like a 590nm filter, but do you know the real value ?

Dang! That looks so cool!

omg the minidisc at 1:38 😂😂

Haha love that we modified the same lens, and released a video about it on the same day, at the same time :)

dude all using an exacto knife for added style and drama, when I was pulling these things apart in highschool with my fingers haha.

Just so you know, old floppy disks are still very much in demand for mostly old industrial equipment. Because companies today do not even attempt to update the OS or control hardware, the factories, universities and such are stuck with 30 year old computers running multi million $ machines, and that is the only viable method of extracting data or reprogramming. Even the US nuclear launch silos still rely on computers so old they still use 5,1/4 inch floppy disks.

"красота - это ты")))

on the old woman's laptop it says красота это ты "beauty is you" in russian.

What a surprise! Thanks for sharing!

This is tough . Great job

I didn't think that would work at all!

watching you playing with the back of your lens is triggering severe OCD, but the results were rewarding

I've never seen someone using Dreaming Out Loud as a song for a KZfaq Video Intro!

I have loads at work. We used to use them for registers and stock lists in the school 🤣

stunning work

Man you are the inspiration for me to do photography. Your voice and narration… oh! Keep on creating videos.

I used to use the end, undeveloped part of a film roll, before I had any filters.

Me: looking at my old floppies.

omg I think is the best way for a catadioptrique lens filter

Oooohhhh.... Now I am thinking to use a swirly lens with IR filter.

That is very fascinating

Your wifes grandmother is awesome!

I shot a solar eclipse through such a filter from a floppy disk.

Come on man, parents had radio tape cassettes and compact discs, we had floppy in our youth years. But nice video thanks for the tip !🍻

Have you tried using the dark part of film that has been exposed the part with no photos onto the lens? A friend of mine also used it to covert there camera to IR

That's still pretty cool!

I breaks my heart seeing how this floppy is brutally murdered😢

Trop bien ! Merci !

Oh, 2 Megabytes! 😉

Interesting.. But the Disc is kinda Small.. have you thought about trying it with a 5,25 Disc? Bigger in Size.. you could use it probably as a Filter.

I bought a pre modified full spectrum Olympus EP2-L and a 750nm IR filter for the grand total of £120. Cheap price and the ability to use the ability to shoot without channel swapping.

Those disks were 1.44MB (in theory, but in practice, less) on an IBM clone / Wintel box. But you could get 1.96MB from the on Amigas.

Such a cool experiment !!

Couldn't you get the same results on the floppy filter by bumping up the color saturation?

mamma mia .... the memories!

Surprised to see so little flare

If you wanted to store the uncompressed raw images from a Sony A7III, you would need over 20 floppydisks per photo.

Floppy disc is not an IR bandpass filter. Its just project red color, thats all.

Not sure of the point of investing a lot of money for an IR-Modified camera only to try to save on the IR filter. I feel like you would get the same effect as the floppy if you put a mist filter on the front of the lens, if that was so-desired. Otherwise, you don't have to drive the saturation so hard in light room for the pro filter.

Nice video as always!

unexposed but developed celluloid film could always work.

The floppy isn't even a I/R pass filter, is an orange one that blocks I/R after 700nm...

Im a photographer but only have one camera. I wouldnt dare fiddle with my camera unless I had a spare backup.

Floppy discs on Ebay are now $150 each! ;)

OMG! Thank Mathieu! I've got a question: At 3:22 what kind of glue you use to put the filter into the lens?

All nice and cool! But where is this beautiful botanical garden located? 😂

Super vidéo Mathieu!! Petite question, pourrais tu s'il te plaît m'indiquer d'où provient la musique à 3:20 ? Merci beaucoup 😀

Pity! I can send you millions of them! 😄

Excellent!

I heard you can also use an exposed film as an infrared filter.

i wonder if different brands/types have different effects?

Did you have chance to try with 5.25 disks? And I have to ask, for astrophotography people use it to filter the IR but for normal photography why do we need it? I am asking out of curiosity, not trying to be a smart a$$.

Mathieu, do you think this could be used for IR film like Rollei Infrared?

amazing

Ever try try using gels?

I have floppy discs but they all have data on them. Can they still be used?

🤣. Very funny. Pretty wild the filter is where,? The the red one. They sell that for different sensor size,,?

isnt normal filmroll working too? Chinese glasfilters on ebay 12 euro. Kolari IR Chrome still expensive 😔

Hi mathieu do you think this would work with some black and whithe ir film ?

My dear friend! i just bought a floppy disk and trying to make something similar, but all my photos are all red only =/

Cool! :)

Wait, what 2 MB... checking references .. .. .. .. .. OK advertised, usually 1,44 ! OK now I can go back to watching the video. Sad fact, I used several of these just a couple of months ago. Working as a technician, It's a real problem when machines in the manufacturing industry live long lives, and it´s more or less impossible to upgrade the CNC systems.

and i thought you converted your Sony Alpha into a MAVICA by saving photos on a 2MB FLOPPY DISK (really, 1.44Mb formatted you schmucks.) (pis le temps d'exposition en plus...)

Why not a 5.25?

about to cut up an old floppy disk to put in my sd quattro

Don't all visible-light cameras have an infrared filter? It seems you really need a visible light filter. But if you can't remove the infrared filter, you'll just block all light.

I have floppy...........🤓

Should have used another, older lens, that didn't have new coatings. You have hotspot on the photos because of this. Old lenses are the best for IR photography.

You technically put is in front of your camera

A little confused, does the floppy disco only work if your camera is already converted?

It's a bit painful to watch for me, because I like Floppy Disks, and collect them, and I don't think they are made anymore, but, at least I am happy that they are at least being put to a good use, albeit not what they were intended for, but at least they're not being wasted. 🙂

Do you planted any weed? I mean, you you do, nobody will know, you can easily hide it there 👀

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Neat! I had no idea floppy storage medium could be used for that. Nice video as usual.

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