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Sony Accidentally Created a Camera That Could See Through Clothing(commonplacefacts.com)
18 points by evo_9 9 hours ago | 9 comments
xvxvx 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My first digital camera was a Sony with a whopping 1MP image size and it cost $100 for a 128Mb card. It also had this cool night vision that, when paired with a special lens filter, could be used for IR photography in daylight. It too could see through clothes, something I found out accidentally when photographing my then girlfriend at the local beach. We joked about it being the best camera for perverts.

To be clear, this wasn’t a video camera but a digital camera. Different from the one mentioned in the article, and this was in 2001 so a few years later.

doublerabbit 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Nostalgia, I won a Year 10's schools gardening competition with the schools Sony Camera that used a Floppy Disk. The clunk made when you slotted the disk in was satisfying.

The era of resonating with computer hardware is at its end.

adt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The old Sony Mavica from 1997! good times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica#Digital_still_came...

Edit: And a related article:

https://casualphotophile.com/2025/12/30/sony-mavica-floppy-d...

rolph 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i think its the wrong end of the stick, sony created a camera that is sensative to IR. textile manufacturers created IR transparent fabric.

im not the biggest fan of sony, but blame [if you are into that] should be pointed in a different direction.

to wit: black and decker accidentally invented a hammer that bends nails, and smashes fingertips.

eesmith 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The stick has a third end - people added an IR transmitting filter so they could record in near-IR during daylight.

rolph 7 hours ago | parent [-]

yup user behaviour! aftersale mods!

gbourne1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought the link in the article about FDR also quite interesting. https://commonplacefacts.com/2022/02/23/fdrs-fishing-trip-an...

pixel_popping 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The name just goes well with it, the "HandyCam".

coldtea 5 hours ago | parent [-]

One can think of a pun for the second term too