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Uploaded by on Apr 18, 2007

Using a typical camcorder, you can see the infrared light from a remote control.

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  • is ir light only white or can it be any color?

  • @johneymute Interesting question. Almost on the philosophical level. IR light is beyond the visual range of people. As such, It is not a color at all. The only way that we can see it is by using technology. Depending only on whatever settings we put into the device, it will show up as that artificial color. Just like looking at a body heat image where some parts are colored in shades of red and others in blue.

  • @johneymute Continuation from below:

    These are only substitue colors so that we can visualize it. In this video, the IR shows up as white. In night vision it often shows as green but it can be any color assigned to the light.

  • what some people dont understand is that is visible light that is everything we see is part of the elctromagnetic spectrum and that is also true of infra red (used in almost every commercial remote control for appliances) the only difference from you seeing a beautiful morning waking up in miami or australia and your remote control is the frequency our eyes arent tuned to that frequency so we dont see it the camera on this video was designed to recognise these frequencies so it could see

  • @voiceofreason2008 Well Said!

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  • Chuck Norris sees both infrared and ultraviolet light.

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  • i can see IR light with my naked eyes its just very faint. :)

  • If I buy an infrared lamp for my camcorder would I be able to see in the night with it?

  • Cool :D

  • @Brandon77800 wow, 6 months since i made that comment because video researching of my science project which i got an A+ on. other then that...

    THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK :PPP

    PS- also, i dont even remember making the comment itself, i was surprised when i saw it again. ^_^

  • @Awesomeness1I stfu bout chuk norriss fagget ass

  • Lol SW music ftw

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