So, dug out the old Goldie Infrared camera in the week, charged up the AA batteries and amazed to find both the batteries and the camera still work happily!
I'd forgotten how interesting this camera is with it's colourful rendition of the infrared world around us. Prior to editing in Lightroom, the images have cyan coloured foliage and brown skies. Some judicious tweaking of colours using the calibration tab and the HSL tab in Lightroom allows me to convert it into something like this, choosing either pink or yellow foliage with blue skies. In Photoshop it would be classed as channel swapping but obviously in Lightroom that isn't possible so you have to come at it via a different approach. It's a technique I have honed over the few years that I've had my collection of converted infrared compact cameras. From the 720nm which I bought first, to the 850nm deep B&W which I really love and which is my infrared camera of choice more recently. Hence the reason why the Goldie had kind of been mothballed in the cupboard! It'll definitely start getting some use again now though.
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