firing ionizing radiation at my camera and x-ray intensifying screens =)

and always remember:
your x-ray gun means x-ray fun!

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[UnoRaza]

Do all digital cameras have this capability to double as a NUKE detector?

This could be incredibly useful with all the stuff going on with nuked vegetables and umm earthquakes. ;D) I hoped not on the latter, but it's happening as we speak.

Are the dangers of these xrays over-hyped or do you know how to protect yourself and if so might you share the latter?

[bionerd23]

@UnoRaza

well yeah, you could use a camera to detect basically all hard beta and gamma radiation. however, it only works for very high levels, so for levels when it's already certain that it's definitely not safe. it also hardly lets you guess what dose you're receiving. so yeah, if you're in the open and NOT holding your camera to uranium ore and you can see those flashes no matter where you point your camera, well, then get the hell out of there or you'll be dead soon.

[UnoRaza]

@bionerd23 Well then how do you do it? (Stay healthy.)

In Northern America a new class of lead lined clothes would probably sell well right about now...

Those small chips would not show up on the camera?

[bionerd23]

@UnoRaza

well personally, i'd rather use a cheap geiger counter than an expensive camera to detect radiation... like, a $50 model, that's better at telling you what radiation levels you're facing than a camera. :P

[MrMegacurie]

@bionerd23 we have used a CCD in a 75PBq - 2MCi 60co irradiator approx. 2m distance from source. Cam doesn`t like - cam is dead :-D

[bionerd23]

@MrMegacurie

haha, awesome. did you manage to extract a video from that, at least? or has the memory card gone to hell, too? would be cool to use an adapter, so the memory card can be away from the source, and see if its possible to catch the death of a camera on film.

[alphamone]

Heh, learned quite a bit about intensifiying screens recently in my animal radiography class. Also, that first shot got quite a bit of scatter radiation.

[GearzVoNKod3]

so THATS why my credit card stopped working when I forgot to take it out of my pocket before an x-ray...

[sleat]

You need to get yourself a vacuum pump and some random HT sources. Much less expensive than you might think. Endless fun! Make X-rays in your study. Just make sure you know the energy levels of the particles you're liberating, and how to hide from them properly. Ever taken an X-ray tube apart? They're quite beautiful inside.

[Vim281]

Where did you get the X-ray tube and intensifying screen?

[ms3bani]

yay!

\o/

[willman20008]

was this at a hospital or uni?

[UnoRaza]

@bionerd23 Thanks!

I was wondering how much one had to spend and it's very useful and logical one would not have to spend much.

Once read a document that showed how to setup a manual detector. (Say your batteries run out. ;D)