On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:13:29 GMT, ritz wrote:

>Thus spake Geewhizz :
>8) if you have a early sony dv with nightshot
>
>8) remember the fun with ppl with white clothes on...
>
>8) if you switched nightshot on during the day people with white clothing on
>8) would soon be naked.
>
>They don't have to be white clothes. Artificial fibers like spandex
>and lycra tend to disappear too...which is probably why Sony disabled
>it...so teenage boys wouldn't be spending all their time using it at
>the beach. 8-)
>
>There are outfits on the net that will take the newer versions of the
>Sony cameras and "upgrade" them to allow use of nightshot during the
>day. I believe it costs a few hundred bucks.

This "X-ray" effect is a lot of hooey...;-)
I have an old TRV9 (see samples of daylight IR in
the TRV9 review, at:
www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder-comparison.htm).
With ***single-layers*** of some open-weave cloth
types (like speaker grille cloth), you can see
through to some extent, but people wear multiple
layers of cloth, rarely a single layer, so using
these camcorders for "X-ray" effects is going
to be an exercise in futility...;-) As for the
cameras, you can either have the switch that
forces the aperture to maximum disabled, or
use enough ND filtration to get the correct
exposure (I chose the latter method with my
PC100...;-).