Re: Anyone used the "fixed" NightShot camcorders yet?

[Joshua_Putnam <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Slam" <slam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Subject: Re: Anyone used the "fixed" NightShot camcorders yet?

>>I'd been considering buying one before the much-hyped
>>seeing-through-clothes nonsense, but since my use for the IR
>>sensitivity would be for previewing scenes in daylight, I
>>wouldn't have any use for it if Sony really did break that
>>feature effectively.

>    If you want to preview stuff in IR in daylight, you don't need to get a
>Nightshot version of a video camera.  All CCD video cameras let in about 2%
>of the IR.

I've done that, but the dimness of the image through even an 87
makes it less than ideal with the cameras I've tried, and with
an 87C I don't get much of an image at all.

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