Re: Video Cameras with IR

[Gary Beasley <beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:58 AM 1/29/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Greetings all
>
>In the Tuesday edition of the computer section in our daily newspaper "The
Star", was an article about one of the video companies making a series of
handycams with IR capability.
>
>If my rusty memory serves me right, the video has its own source for IR
light so that the video is able to tape the "invisible scene". The same
article gave a ball park figure of the cameras selling for $500 up to
$1600. The same video camera is supposed to have an image stabiliser. 
>
>I will try and find the article and in particular the make of the afore
mentioned handycam(s). 
>
>My last memory about video cameras is that they can operate with a minimum
of 2 Candela (open for correction and flames). It would be very interesting
to see what is on offer at the Photokina (Koln - germany) in September
especially for IR. Umm I know I have not mentioned the PMA in the States,
but forgive me my error, as I only have the luck of heading to Germany and
not the States once every two years (Rand is worthless compared to the US$). 
>
A friend has a Sony video camera that sees infrared, I think this is true
of all ccd type cameras. If you want to check yours for sensitivity to IR
just get you trusty TV remote and look at it through the monitor while
activating the remote. You should see the IR emitter light up on the end of
the remote. On his it just looked like a white light blinking on the
remote. I lent him an 87C gel filter to try and it worked pretty well,
though with nowhere near the sensitivity as it has in visible light.
Gary Beasley
beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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