I recently bought a second hand Olympus E-PL1 and replaced the anti aliasing filter with glass which I cut out from an old UV filter. Lucky for me, the UV filter glass is the same thickness as the anti aliasing filter. And my brother has a 52mm Hoya R72 filter which fits perfectly on the Panasonic 14-42mm so off I went to take some infrared pics.
Here are my first few pics with it. Images were processed in Adobe Photoshop. I’ll try to take more this week and possibly update this post. I hope it stays sunny.
Update 2011-09-18
I just added three more pics taken this past week. I’ve noticed that my brother’s Hoya R72 filter has some sort of imperfection in the glass which makes the middle part of the image blurry. It’s not a scratch and it’s hard to see unless you’re looking at it against a bright light source (and even then, you really have to be looking for it) but it makes the photos look horrible when the Panasonic 14-42mm lens is at its widest. It disappears the more you zoom in but I like to shoot wide so I don’t think I’ll be using it much. Besides, I’ve just realised that using a red filter produces more pleasing results when doing faux colour IR photos so I think I’ll be using that from now on.