X-Ray Hunter

What you see here is a new form of "infrared photography" using the "near infrared" light spectrum. You may have heard about this controversial new technology on the news lately! All camcorders are made to view and record normal light. (white light). This is between 400 and 750 nanometers. Many common camcorders are equipped with nightvision or nightshot modes and are capable of viewing light higher than 750 nanometers. This is the "near infrared" light spectrum. Waves in this spectrum are not visible to the naked eye but they are visible to the CCD chip in your camcorder. These "near infrared" light waves are the waves that are penetrating the material and reflecting an image of the body surface. The camcorder can pick up all these waves and records them. In order capture the x-ray effect you must block out the visible light waves or they will overtake your image drowning out the infrared image. Normally the nightshot or nightvision mode was to be used only at night when there is very very little white light or (visible light) as we know it. However there are no girls out on the beach at night so we had to trick the camera into thinking it was night. We do this by screwing a filter on the lens that only lets the "near infrared light" (750 nanometers or more) into the camera. All the visible light waves are blocked out (750 and below). If you were to hold this filter up to the sun you will not be able to see thru it. It is totally black! But when you screw it on the camcorder and look in the viewfinder you can see a perfect black and white image. This is the x-ray vision technology that you see in use here.