Compact Infrared Camera Sees in the Dark

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Compact Infrared Camera Sees in the Dark

Infrared photography used to be dead easy. You’d buy some IR film and put a dark, dark red filter on the front of your lens. Then you’d turn the focus ring a notch to the left to compensate for the fact that the IR light focuses differently. Apart from no

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/compact-infrared-camera-sees-in-the-dark/

you might consider the Midnight Shot NV-1, a night-vision camera made for infrared photography. The camera is as simple as it gets: 5MP sensor, fixed focus, a three-inch LCD and 640 x 480 AVI video capture. But switch it into night mode and things get interesting