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Ultraviolet Digital Cameras

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-I-see dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to tell us that "Scientists at North Carolina State University's Solid State Physics Laboratory say they have built a camera that can take pictures of anything that emits ultraviolet light." And we'd like to announce an update to the RobCam: I think Hemos and I will be wearing a lot more white.

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  1. pah, thats nothing by Yarn · · Score: 3

    Where I work we have digital cameras* that take pictures in 3D and work with gamma rays. And a camera that constructs 3d images from radiowaves in a magnetic field.

    PET and MRI (aka NMR) are old technology tho, PET's resolution being limited to ~8mm iirc, due to the fact that a positron has to drift a certain distance before annihilating (Statistically speaking). MRI's drawbacks are that you cant have any metal in the subject.

    Oh, and they're both expensive

    (* If you define a digital camera as something that creates images from life)

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  2. Kiddie-science article by PigleT · · Score: 3

    "All stars emit ultraviolet light, so compact digital cameras sensitive to that wavelength could open a new window on the universe."

    Erm, yeah, like I didn't know that?

    More to the point, what is a digital camera, at eg 1152x864 resolution, going to see that the big boys can't now?

    I think the whole thing is just a tad simplistic but ludicrously optimistic, typical journalist-meets-brains syndrome...

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