There is now quite noticeable image noise in the white walls from the IR sensitive camera (left), while only a hint of the picture frames and mantlepiece present with the original camera (right): Once the light starts to get lower, the improvement from removing the red glass filter is very apparent (left) - although there is still some details in the nearly black images from the original camera (right): In the photos above, in normal lighting levels, the pictures are not so different - the colour is more natural for the unmodified camera (right), especially in the green leaves of the plant and the brown of the picture frames. The photos on the left are from the infra red (IR) sensitive camera with the red glass filter removed (slightly leaning to the left), those on the right are with the original filter in place: This offers no control over the raw image capture settings at all.
#PS3 EYE CAM IR FILTER MAC OS#
I tried this in the middle of the night, with moderate ceiling light, indirect light from the hall, and indirect light from a desk light - I didn't note down exactly which was which.Īll the images are taken with Photo Booth, a simple webcam application which comes with Mac OS X. In normal light, both work fine but of course the colour balance is a bit strange without the filter. Since I now have two Xbox Live Vision cameras, I can compare with and without the red glass filter side by side. If you have suitable small crosshead screw drivers, it should be quite easy. Then reattach the threaded mount, making sure the screws are done up tightly, replace the PCB, and put the case back on. The red glass filter can now be removed by gentle pressure on the edge with a small screwdriver from the front (through the lens hole). You don't actually have to remove the board completely, I did it to take these photos. (Update - a Phillips head PH 000 screwdriver works beautifully.) For this a small cross-head screwdriver would be advised - I just about managed with a flat headed jeweller's screwdriver but it was quite a struggle. To get at the IR filter you also need to unscrew the PCB from the back of the case, and then unscrew the black plastic threaded lens mount.
As before, this is based on the advice and photos from Cliff Tate on the Star Gazers Lounge forum. I actually bought a second Xbox 360 camera for this experiment, so I can show photos with and without this modification.įor my second attempt I found opening the Xbox webcam case was much easier - and again I removed the green LEDs and cut off the nose cone for use with a telescope adapter. Last night I removed the built in red glass filter, which makes the webcam much more light sensitive - especially for infra-red (IR). My first blog post was about mounting the Xbox Live Vision camera on a telescope for astrophotography.
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