ARK Infrared
IR-01 turns ordinary photos into infrared photographs — the way they would look shot on IR film through a real filter. It is not a color preset: the engine reads every pixel for the physical evidence infrared responds to — chlorophyll, sky light, tungsten heat — and rebuilds the image the way film would record it.
Nothing is painted on.
Black & white infrared, 590–850 nm. Glowing foliage, dark skies, halation bleeding around highlights. The dial sets the filter wavelength.
False-color reconnaissance film built to find camouflage from the air: living vegetation turns red, everything else keeps its neutral tone. The dial moves through the Wratten filter series — the axis practitioners used on the real film.
The film that never existed — color infrared for tungsten night, built from physics. Lights blaze, foliage burns red against a black sky. The engine adapts to each photo's white balance automatically.
Shoot in daylight, get a moonlit night — the way the eye actually sees in the dark: reds sink first, color drains, the day sky goes deep. Not a blue wash.
One dial. One red key.
A tuning ruler, an exposure dial, live rendering under your finger. Tap the nameplate to read what infrared light actually is — from Herschel's 1800 experiment to the film that hunted camouflage, chapter by chapter, opening on the film you are holding.
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