Re: Paparazzi technique

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

Originally from Nikon List, CC'd to IR List:
(PS Andrew Donkin: the current digest size is too large to be
replied upon in Pegasus....please decrease the file size!)

> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 16:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "George R. Zachar" <grz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Paparazzi technique
> 
> Amid all the coverage of Princess Diana's
> tragic death, a small snippet of photo-related
> info came out.
> 
> Apparently some of the maligned paprazzi are
> able to shoot through the darkened windows
> of celebrity limos.
> 
> Now, I have no interest in doing this, but
> the intellectual challenge of getting a usable
> image in this situation intrigues me.
> 
> How would I use my F3HP to do this?

I doubt these guys are smart enough for this, but fact is that normal 
neutral density filters have no effect on infrared, the dyes only 
block up to 750nm or so. Same goes for polarizers, and grad's of 
course.
If such darkened windows are in the same ballpark, then one could get 
at least b&w infrared pictures, probably requiring (IR) flash as 
well.
Again, I doubt these guys have the brains to deal with this film, 
but one can compensate a lot for $1x10^6.

No doubt they have image intensifiers (night vision tubes) available 
in their equipment pool as well....and those are also 
IR-sensitive....not a constellation I would want to use on a bike, 
but who knows.




 

- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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