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Chienworks wrote on 5/1/2010, 6:33 AM
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago or so there was a series of SONY SD handycams that had that ability built in. SONY marketed them as Night Vision camcorders, but it was quickly discovered that adding a strong ND filter in regular daylight let them see through various types of clothing.

Rumor has it that when SONY realized this they felt the public would be outraged and arranged recall programs for the entire line. Not sure if that's true, but these camcorders are now extremely rare and difficult to obtain. If you do a web search for "xray cam" you can find a few clips. Of course, the rumor also says that SONY gets web hosts to pull the clips or take down the sites too. There aren't anywhere near as many clips available now as there were a few years ago.
randy-stewart wrote on 5/1/2010, 7:35 AM
Interesting Kelly. Wasn't aware of that. Actually, I wasn't thinking about the seeing through clothing part. It was the seeing through dyed plastic that the vid showed that peaked my interest. Thought it would make for cool intro's to "how to" vids. Guess my age is showing.
Thanks,
Randy
farss wrote on 5/1/2010, 7:40 AM
Not entirely that difficult to remove the IR cut filters from a camera.
Add cheap ND filters that don't cut IR or better yet but the expensive filters that only let far IR at 1,000nm through and you're away.

You MIGHT be able to get the same outcome with the Sony consummer cameras using Nightshoot and external ND filers. Nightshoot removes the IR cut filter but does something else that could bugger up the idea.

Bob.
craftech wrote on 5/1/2010, 7:47 AM
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago or so there was a series of SONY SD handycams that had that ability built in. SONY marketed them as Night Vision camcorders, but it was quickly discovered that adding a strong ND filter in regular daylight let them see through various types of clothing.

Ah, my first camera Kelly. The Sony CCD-TRV85 Hi8 camera. I still sometimes walk around Times Square with it occasionally ....................(just kidding of course)

John
Rob Franks wrote on 5/1/2010, 10:04 AM
There's a blurb on ir and the RED ONE cam seeing through plastic and such.... quite interesting.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=31444

The army has been playing around with this concept for years. The general idea is that EVERYTHING is see-through... you just need to apply the right beam to it.
Chienworks wrote on 5/1/2010, 12:45 PM
Heck, even 10 meters of lead-cadmium alloy is see-through if you try hard enough. I wouldn't wanna be hit with the beam that makes it through that though! I'd voluntarily read the size tag on my underwear to folks first if they're that curious.