I don't have other lens. The one that I am using comes with the kit.

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Added on July 4, 2009, 10:41 pm

Sound bad. What usually causes this kind of problem? Coz I never drop it or anything....

I found this from the internet:


Is this what it means by stripped gear?

The camera does not produce such sound when I remove the lens and turn it on. Seems like it really has got something to do with the lens.

I hope Sony Centre can fix this

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dingenius3: Actually, infrared registers as purple. It's Photoshop that makes it white.

HiroBoroi: Infrared has no color. However, every sensor I have ever seen registers it as purple.

Cameras with stronger IR block filters should not use the R72 filter - the R72 lets in a lot of red. If you see red, that just means that for the same long exposure, it has let in more red than infrared.

I have a China-made 950nm filter which gives a strong filtration such that longer exposures do not let in any red... the downside being that there is no false color and all of the exposure is purple.

An alternative is to use the R72 with a pair of polarizers at maximum darkening (which cut off the red side of the spectrum, so you get pure infrared.)