The CHUZHAO Mini TLR was one of the most unexpectedly popular digital cameras to hit the consumer market in 2025. In this short video, I'll show you how to shoot infrared photography with this viral toy camera.
It was an undertaking completely devoid of logic outside all rational photographic understanding. I'm not sure what possessed me to attempt to use this tiny plastic camera for infrared photography. Much like the summit of Mount Everest, perhaps I wanted to undertake this ridiculous experiment simply because it was there.
Even now, this thing I have done makes no sense whatsoever, and maybe that's why I found the notion of converting the CHUZHAO Mini TLR to shoot infrared so damn interesting.
In this short video tutorial, I will give you a detailed guide on how to adapt the CHUZHAO into a budget infrared digital camera that can fit in your pocket. This is an incredibly easy tutorial for those who are just beginning to experiment with infrared digital photography. For the eclectic camera tinkerers out there like myself, it is also a cool project that can inject some creativity into your day-to-day photo work.
And yes, there are plenty of sample images demonstrating the results you can expect from this infrared conversion, so you can decide if it's a project you might want to try yourself.
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