Invisble Flash Dark Flash

[renfairephotog]

"Invisible flash" could eliminate bright camera bulb pops


A camera that takes photos with an invisible flash of infrared and ultraviolet light points to a smarter way to take photos in the dark.

Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University created the camera in an attempt to do away with intrusive regular flashes.

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Yahoo tech

[switch]

Looks like they still have a way to go, but could be very cool in the future.  Did you click on the picture?  Very strange, looks like night vision like the article said.  Dark eyes.

[renfairephotog]

In the article is a link to a series of the photos. the darl flash, the no flash, and the combined image.
the gallery

[switch]

Ah, yeah now I paged through them.  Pretty cool.  I wonder how it compares side by side with the same image taken from a standard camera.  Interesting article though.

[DeadBishop]

It's a neat concept but it would never work for consumer cameras, IMO, just because of the unnatural colors it produces with the wider range of light used, even with the software enhancement.  Looks similar to HDR photography, with the way it combines frames.  I'd like to see what the scientific uses for the technology have produced.