Re: Myth of Heat exposing IR film

[Patrick Magee <pmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 Luvdove6@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> > Weird thing - when my (blue) mobile phone was shot with IE (w/4Y
> >  filtration)/developped E-4 it turned out red.....
> 
> This might be a really dumb question but I was thinking...  since our remotes 
> for our TV's or VCR's are done with infra red rays and infra red sensors...  
> if I took a picture while hitting a button on the remote.. would the rays 
> show up?
They do on my camcorder. It's one way of testing batteries. :-)

I believe most of the remotes use IR LEDS in the in the area of 900nm so I
would expect it to show up. Now how much testing do you need to perform to
get the perfect exposure of your remote in action? ;-)

Pat

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