Oh jeeze Tom do you really have to go all tupid on this again!?!? Guess I'm going to have to go back to calling you Sheldon, but I hesitate because he at least uses logic when he's being a pain. Sorry my friend I don't think anyone is going to just "shoot you a copy". Is that a thinly veiled attempt to acquire a free copy? Why would we need to have you critique anything ?!?! Are you trying to say you're an expert using this technique? If you read back in the early posts I gave you instructions on doing the camera mods (which you refused to at least try), even gave you information on a company that will do the mod for you. In your haste to twist the conversation you skipped what I said about the cameras & filters. If the camera has a filter built in from the factory blocking a wide range of the IR spectrum, it doesn't matter what filter you add on. You could literally stack filters till you looked like you had a 50mm lens and accomplish nothing. I'll ask you again for the umpteenth time. Why doesn't this technique work? I'd expect you to be able to answer that in a heartbeat! Buy yourself a copy of David's book, >>read it with an open mind<< then go back and read the early posts here use the hints etc. Sorry Sheldon, you'll have to mod a camera or have it done. How in the heck can you say something doesn't work if you've obviously not done any research, field tests, experiments or listen to people who have? As with anything you're not going to throw batteries in it and hit the backyard, you need to learn. With a closed mind you might as well stay home .
WOW! Hats off to you! At least you read it! Cool! (compliment in a good way). It's a starting point. Taking his work & moving forward was my next step. Best example I could think of would be you taking a schematic someone did & then said what if I did this? The schematic you used isn't carved in stone absolute but if you hadn't had it, you wouldn't have tried things and improved on it as I'm sure you've done a few times. Also too there's another thing, he only used a single type of camera. I think he got results and didn't go further to see if other cameras gave better or no results. I started with this back in the Polaroid days and found three cameras that produced zero nada zilch And I would not have known this if I hadn't started with "the book" and tried to find better results by working off his work. He pretty much gave up hope when Polaroid quit producing film packs. Digital will work with a modded camera but how many of us have the time & money to test as much as what's needed? Right now I've been sitting on a lens for a completely different application for two or three months now. Just haven't had the time to modify it to test. Holding it in my fingers and a bunch of gaffers tape doesn't work. I think it might eliminate the processing but I'd have to make it work 99% of the time before I'd make anything close to a claim. Oh, one thing David didn't get was if you mod the camera, take that internal filter out you can use the same type filter externally. You can't do this as a one setup fits all thing. Davids book is a very good starting point although it's getting a little outdated now. Think! Some of the people here have no photography experience, so they need to have a starting point & see it isn't a run out on the beach pop a shot process & go dig the mother load! Just like everything in detecting, treasure hunting, what ever tag you want to put on this if you don't put in the work your success won't be there. Period! I'm a firm believer in "No work no gain! Nothing comes easy or free". I'll post more as time permits. Again compliments! Good to see you did some studying instead of throwing out throwing virgins in the fire garbage as Sheldon does.
