Infrared test.
The Nikon D50 is a pretty good camera for shooting IR.

The RAW camera image. Exposure was 1/15 second at f3.5 and 200ISO, showing good IR sensitivity. Auto exposure was used.

Greyscale conversion

Red channel only

Green channel only

Blue channel only
Below are 100% sections of the image:

Red

Green

Blue

In rain the exposure was 1/13 second at f4.5 and 200ISO

Exposure here was 1/8 second at f4.5 and 200ISO
Here we have another image:
Red channel only

Green channel only

Blue channel only
100% sections:

Red

Green

Blue
You can see from all the above shots that noise is pretty good, especially in the red channel.