Re: Question: IR Night Vision + Video Camera

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

On  3 May 00 at 15:08, Mark Andrew Macleod wrote:

> 
> I'm a Canadian engineering student working on IR threshold &
> sensitivity summer project. This project requires a high quality "night
> vision" device mounted in front of a hi-quality digital camera for a
> series of experiments.
> 
> A friend involved with IR photography recommended me to your newsgroup.
> Although I am an amateur photographer, I have not experimented with IR
> film (maybe now is the best time to begin).
> 
> If you can recommend types & models of high quality "night vision" devices
> available and where I would obtain them, I would be grateful. 

ITT makes a range of night vision tubes that can be mounted on 
video-cameras, including C(S)-mount and Canon
s pro digi-cam's of the last decade. 
Note that this increases only the light-amplification, not 
the IR-sensitivity as such (in fact some video-cams see further into IR than 
these night vision scopes themselves).
Real fun starts if you add IR-only lights....even a tiny Maglite will 
be dazzling bright, stronger stuff allows visibility at miles 
distance...
(there are even searchlights (with IR-filter) that can be focussed 
for such purposes) 




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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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


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