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Is a CCD, at several hundred feet, something you can detect? Using what technology?
by DarrenMills 17y ago
Is a CCD, at several hundred feet, something you can detect? Using what technology?
- yangyang 17y agoExactly. And what of cameras that use CMOS sensors (like most DSLRs)? Or old-school film-shooting paps?
- pbz 17y agoSharks with lasers of course...
- anigbrowl 17y agoNot the CCD. Handheld detectors (like this one http://www.lightinthebox.com/Super-Sleuth-Camera-Detector_p50144.html http://www.lightinthebox.com/Super-Sleuth-Camera-Detector_p5...) work by strobing an array of very bright LEDs and looking for reflections from lenses. I've seen manufacturers claim it's good out to 900 feet and I see no reason it wouldn't work in principle, but a shrewd paparazzi could probably just set up a few ordinary mirrors around his observation point and confuse the system that way. Sounds like a repurposed military anti-sniper device or similar. Then again maybe the whole thing is just exaggeration designed to give paparazzi nightmares about having their retinas burned.