Re: Wired goes infrared! ( Oi! ... Mate!)

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:52:15 +0100, you wrote:

|These cheapo NV units are based on a M42 lens mount (a 58mm/f2 lens=20
|is included), so any kind of filter experiment is easy to do. I just=20

When I worked on a magazine called Electronics Illustrated during the
Veitnam war, we got an invitation to a press showing of fantastic new
U.S. Army technology at Fort Dix in New Jersey.  It turned out to be
the first generation (I assume) NV scopes.  They filed us into an
auditorium with a low wall running behind the orchestra seats (stalls,
for the benefit of our Limey members) and a passage behind that.  The
NV scopes were set on top of the low wall, so we could stand in the
passage and look over the wall without heads between us and the
stange.  When we were all set they turned out all the lights and
turned on an IR source somewhere and soldiers in camo started crawling
around on the stage, making like sappers.  You could barely see them
through the scopes.  I was underwhelmed.