oops... (was Re: Nology)

[Clarence L.Snyder]

Bill the arcstarter wrote:
> 
> Greg wrote:
> >And, while I am straying off list subjects--has anyone else seen the
> >news about a British photographer having applied for a patent for
> >using what is known in his trade as a "slave flash unit" for many
> >non-photographic applications, one of which was mounting such a unit
> >as one would mount either a driving and/or a back-up light for the
> >purpose of completely washing out the film image in a photo-radar
> >camera???? :-) (I happen to hate big brother stuff every bit as much
> >as I hate snake oil!!)
> 
> Oh - that sounds nice.  I had thought about a constant IR lamp blaring
> on the plate to fog the film.  Possibly via infrared leds/diode
> modules...  Most b/w film is sensitive to IR or so I'm told...
> 
> -Bill
> 
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But video tape is not? Digital photography allows them to "lift" numbers
from dirty plates etc by changing Gamma correction.