Robster wrote:

miso@sushi.com wrote:

I know and exploit around the ranges
that I don't post unless someone else finally figures it out and
reveals it.

Well, I genuinely hope you'll be able to bring some of that material too
us someday.

 Tom didn't show any images

Is the reason he didn't publish, the same as the reason you don't?

I enjoyed the links to the vids - I'd like to see more video of the
area.  I pop out and do some myself, but from where I'm sitting, thats
going to be a difficult.

Hooking up a video camera to a viewing device takes some engineering. I
had to set up a video lens to do macrophotography of the imager screen.
This required getting some hardware machined, plus using len filters as
an extension tube. [3 or 4 at $10 a pop Fortunately the machining was
free.] Tom may not have wanted to go through the hassle to make the
hardware. I think his imager was borrowed, so that might complicate
matters.

My NV is an old Soviet era gen 2. Better than what you get in the
electronics stores, if you don't mind a few burnt out spots. However,
getting accessories was quite a hassle. I  found a broken relay lens
that I used to make my macro hardware.

Those Sony HAD camera and a large aperture C mount len makes better NV
gear than the stuff they sell at Fry's. If you need IR illumination for
your NV, you are not going to take any video of distant objects. The
key to NV is starlight amplification.

<http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4166>
<http://www.supercircuits.com/pdf/PC164C.pdf>

C mount lenses are sold on ebay all the time. I need to dig it up, but
I believe that video of the commercial airliner was using a 75mm f1.4.