The HV20 on the UFO Hunters!

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

History Channel's "UFO Hunters" is one of the shows I watch every Wednesday (along "Lost" and "Life on Mars"). I have even interviewed for my blog one of the show's three investigators last year.

So tonight they were talking about some UFOs that are not visible with the naked eye, but *some* cameras are able to catch them on tape. And so I was thinking at that point: "I wonder if the HV20 can see that part of the infrared spectrum".

Lo and behold, the guys recruited a scientist and did a test to show that IR light not visible with the human eye was visible through the camera's LCD. And the camera they used was an HV20!

So I paused my DVR, grabbed my HV20, and snapped a picture of their little experiment on my TV, showing off the camera: http://hv20.info/yopu/HV20-ufo-hunters.jpg
Ex-NASA & MIT scientist Ted Acworth holds the HV20 in his hands.

It's always nice to see the HV20 getting featured on TV, even for small things like this!

[bigjezza]

Yup, if you point the cam at a laptops IR port or point the IR remote that comes with the cam at the camera, you can see the IR.

I've often wondered if a cat can see IR. I once had a cat that would seem interested in the remote! A cat that is interested in anything other than food is kinda strange.

What this means for us HV users is that we can go out and get an IR Floodlight, and film in the dark, without anyone seeing the IR. On the footage every thing will be black and white, but thats better than nothing at all. Call it DIY night vision.

[Zacatac]

The hv20 has been used on Storm Chasers for the dashboard cam...

Unfortunately, it is only used a few times due to the rolling shutter destroying most of the footage

[Dana Love]

The HVx0 is this season's small camera on Dirty Jobs, too. They blend the HVx0, the Sony Z5U and the Panasonic HDX900. The HV gets the dirtiest jobs - you can see it mounted on the dead truck in the cow rendering segment, and mounted on the tree shaker in the olive picking segment.

Mmmm, dead cows and olive oil. It's a dirty world.