Can the Nikon D5100 Camera Capture InfraRed?

I would like to get into infrared photography and currently own a Nikon D5100. I was wondering if this camera is capable of capturing infrared light? I'm able to see the infrared LED's light up on a remote control when the camera is in Live Mode. My local camera shop told me that the camera will not actually capture an image… Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks in advance!

Added (1). To clarify, the D5100 can capture infrared images if I purchase an infrared lens filter (which is what I would like to do)? Or are you saying that I will not be able to capture these images at all because of the infrared filter over the sensor?

All digital cameras have an IR cutoff filter.IR focuses at a slightly different location on film or a sensor, so without the cutoff filter, the image could show some softness that would prevent those ultra sharp images photographers love so much.

IF you put an IR filter on your lens after manually focusing the image, It could take a few minutes to get any kind of exposure on the sensor.

If you have a second, backup dSLR, you could spend about $350 to have it converted to IR only or you can buy a nice used Nikon 35 mm camera and use IR film to capture your IR images. That would cost you less than $100 with a lens on craigslist

Responding to your additional details (fhotoace covered the original question accurately and concisely):

The IR filter built on to the sensor is usually in the range of 95-99% effective - usually towards the top end of that range.

*As opposed to the IR pass-thru filter you would need to buy to block out everything but IR.

With all digital cameras, if you take off the built-in IR cut-off filter and it will capture IR.

An IR filter will not work on your camera. An IR filter filters out everything but IR.

However, your camera has an IR filter in front of the sensor to remove IR. You can't regain that is filtered out by the sensor filter no matter what kind of filter you put on the lens.

Many of the astrophotography guys have gone and remove the IR filter from in front of the sensors on their cameras as it is necessary to capture IR to take the best photos of stars and such.

You can search the astrophotography websites, and they will probably have a procedure to remove the filter, and some brand/models of DSLRs will probably work better in this regard than others.

But of course, any such attempt to remove the filter will obviously void your warranty. And you will always need to use an IR rejection filter on your lens if you ever want to take normal photos with that camera again, as the lack of the filter will include IR in your photos.

Depending on your remote, you may or may not be able to see IR from a remote. Many remotes use 940nM IR LEDs, but some use 850nM, and some may even use higher frequencies - so called near-IR. Some of these remotes may show up.

But I can't see them on my D90.