Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, michael brown wrote:
>
> *>Olin Lathrop wrote:
> *>> Peter L. Peres wrote:
> *>>> The best emerging display technology is retinal projection. Not
> LCD. *>>
> *>> Bzzzzt.  Pooof.  Whoops, sorry about the eye.  It should stop
> smoking *>> soon.  Milliwatts, microwatts, their all so confusing!
> *>
> *>That's precisely why I didn't go for the IR vision tracking version
> of *>the auto-focus Canon's.  Who knows how bright the light is that
> they *>use, IR and all.  ;-)
>
> It is not that bright. You can check with a CCTV camera that sees
> near IR. On the contrary, I find the redeye reduction preflash/af
> illuminator blinding (not on that lens).  Canon also had a model of
> 8mm video camera with eye tracking of the metering 'hotspot' area and
> a few effects switched with the eye (blink on blink off). It was a
> nice trick.

That's good to know.  I know what you mean about the red-eye reduction,
I wonder how many catatonic siezures they've caused.  ;-)  I was quite
surprised to see how "bright" I/R remote controls are when I was playing
with a web cam one time.

michael brown

"In the land of the blind, he who has one eye is king"

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