I already stick out in a crowd as it is. Putting on those goggles and walking around in public will cause children to flee in terror. Women will faint. Men will turn their heads in disgust.
Sounds like fun! <vbg> Hey, after three days of cloud, rain and drizzle, the sun's shining this morning! Woo-hoo! (I know this last paragraph's a complete non-sequitor, but it's put me in a rare good mood, but wasn't worth a separate post). cheers, frank "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Fallen behind on reading PDML yet again, but wanted > to share a URL I tripped over. Apparently human > eyes _are_ sensitive to near-IR, just not very much > so. This page describes wandring around wearing > welder's goggles with IR filters in them so that > one's eyes get accustomed to the low levels of > light (relative to the retina's sensitivity at > those wavelengths); what the author describes > seeing matches the results of shooting Kodak HIE > with a filter (except for the red tint to everything). > > -- Glenn -- "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in pi" - Henri Cartier-Bresson