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- From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: CCD camera questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.052950.4121@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 05:29:50 GMT
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- jack@robotics (replying to an earlier question) writes:
- >>The second CCD camera question deals with the CCD's response to IR.
- >>What is the response curve of a CCD camera? How quickly does the CCD's
- >>sensitivity taper off as the frequency of the light drops below visible
- >>and into IR? And how come I can see the IR on my monitor/view-finder?
- >>(try pointing your TV remote at the cam-corder). My potential application
- >>is a pseudo-night-vision device.
- >
- >It depends on the CCD used, and the optical filters in front of it that
- >make specific CCD elements sensitive to red, green, or blue. But as you've
- >observed, they do see some IR. Your monitor displays this signal as
- >visible image (TV remote IR LED's are actually pretty bright).
- >...
-
- Although this won't help you with your camcorder... It turns out that
- most CCD chips have pretty good IR sensitivity. A very good and very
- cheap way to get an IR video camera is to buy a cheap B&W video camera,
- open it up, and (carefully) remove the IR filter that was placed over
- the CCD by the camera manufacturer. We do this to record animal (blue
- crab to be specific) behavior under IR illumination. Like us, a lot of
- animals are insensitive to IR.
-
- -Dean
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- Dean Pentcheff (Internet: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu) (803) 777-8998
- Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29205
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