Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras

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Anyone that knows anything about cameras

will tell you that this story is a lot of nonsense and hype. It plain doesn't work. First of all, to defeat this system, simply take 2 cameras. Second, most "papparazi" type shots are taken at hundreds of feet, thousands even. The sensor technology will not work at that distance, and neither will the light beam. Add to that the fact that most pro fotographers use DSLR these days. They focus using a completely different system (using plain light), meter using a different system, and it only takes about 1/125th of a second for the shutter to release and expose the CCD (the CCD usually has the IR filter mounted on it, inside the camera body, which is what this system supposedly detects). You are not going to tell me that their "aiming" system can react and aim within 1/125th of a second. The motors and controls for something like that would be huge. Not exactly the kind of thing a celebrity would want mounted on their beer-cooler at the beach or in a backpack while walking through the streets.

Come on people, you know better than this... use your heads for more than just hanging up your baseball caps.

Posted by: rock06r   Posted on: 09/20/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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