Re: Inexpensive Infrared Video

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:51:46 +0100 (WET DST), you wrote:

|For his birthday, my jungest son received a toy video camera (to
|be plugged in a TV set or a VCR - it cost around 50$ and works with
|standard AA batteries).  While he was playing, I noticed that some
|dark evergreen in the room looked clearly white.

=46rom previous posts on this mailinglist, I gather that such cameras
are natively IR-sensitive and that many models go out of their way to
suppress this sensitivity, adding to the cost and preventing the kind
of photography that we weirdos (well, unusual persons, anyway) so dote
on.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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