Budget-Friendly Infrared Photography

The Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3

An experiment to see whether we’re capable of taking good photos with the new camera module 3 from Raspberry Pi.

Following a run of using old things to get pictures, we thought we’d have a look at using something brand new to grab a few images.

IR Photography

In the video below there’s a brief introduction to infrared photography, followed by a few photos we took (that turned out a lot better than we were expecting them to).

Build Your Own

The few lines of code that we used to get the images can be found here. Hopefully someone will find it useful.