On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:18:06 GMT, dvand@modern-media.com (Doug vanderHoof) wrote:

>David Reuther and All,
> Oh, naked envy! I've noticed that I can see infra-red remote control
>signals with my VX-1000, but I never thought to isolate them.
> Is there any way to filter everything but IR, especially something
>cheap like a piece of glass rather than some battlefield electronics?

I just tried a rough test with a too-small hand-held Kodak no. 87
IR filter with the VX-1000 - it appears that it may barely work, but
with lots of gain-noise, even in daylight... BTW, other than for
REALLY NICE daylight IR-effect shooting (which I have been doing
a lot of this summer...), the IR effect is not very useful (no
"heat-sensing", no clothes "see-through" (with the occasional
rare exception, when conditions are right... [and speaker
grille-cloth does appear fairly transparent...;-]) - just nice
daylight B&W images with white foliage, black skies, etc.
I did try it with my TRV-9 with an IR filter on a video light at
a party (for non-obnoxious video illumination in a dark place...)
with moderate success... (decent-quality B&W images can be had
in near total [visual...] darkness).