Sony Mavica works with Wratten 87

[Joshua_Putnam <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Toying around with what's left of the scratched Lee polyester 87
gel I cut up for my flash head, I thought to stick it over the
lens of the Sony Mavica digital camera my father bought
yesterday.  

The Mavica has a number of options, including taking monochrome
pictures.  I took a small potted plant and put it under a
halogen lamp, set the camera on monochrome, slipped the filter
over the lens, and suddenly the leaves turned that familiar
white -- the Mavica can indeed take pictures through a visually
opaque no.87 filter!  Not only that, but after hunting a little
the auto-focus appears to have worked almost perfectly -- the
hunting around it did may have been because I was holding the
flimsy filter over the lens with my fingers and it was bending a
little.

The light from a single 75W halogen bulb 6 feet away is a bit
dim, so the picture is pretty dark, but it works.  If I'd thought
of this earlier in the day I would have tried it outdoors, but
that will have to wait for the weekend.

This might just be enough to get me to buy a digital camera of my
own, though probably something with a bit better resolution than
the Mavica.  Has anyone tried this with other digital cameras?
It seems like a very convenient way of pre-visualizing an IR shot
in the field.  Certainly better than the IR night vision goggles
I tried in the past.

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 Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx  is  Joshua Putnam / P.O. Box 13220 / Burton, WA 98013
                       "My other bike is a car."                   
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