The sensitivity range of most digital imagers include the 940nm IR range.
They are, as a rule, NOT sensitive to the 10,000nm deep IR range made by
heat, body radiation, etc.

They are interpreting the 940nm IR emission as red.

--Bob

At 08:02 PM 7/3/2003 -0300, you wrote:
>IFR

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