Sony Accidentally Created a Camera That Could See Through Clothing (2022)
commonplacefacts.comMy first digital camera was a Sony with a whopping 1MP image size and it cost $100 for a 128Mb card. It also had this cool night vision that, when paired with a special lens filter, could be used for IR photography in daylight. It too could see through clothes, something I found out accidentally when photographing my then girlfriend at the local beach. We joked about it being the best camera for perverts.
To be clear, this wasn’t a video camera but a digital camera. Different from the one mentioned in the article, and this was in 2001 so a few years later.
Nostalgia, I won a Year 10's schools gardening competition with the schools Sony Camera that used a Floppy Disk. The clunk made when you slotted the disk in was satisfying.
The era of resonating with computer hardware is at its end.
The old Sony Mavica from 1997! good times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica#Digital_still_came...
Edit: And a related article:
https://casualphotophile.com/2025/12/30/sony-mavica-floppy-d...
i think its the wrong end of the stick, sony created a camera that is sensative to IR. textile manufacturers created IR transparent fabric.
im not the biggest fan of sony, but blame [if you are into that] should be pointed in a different direction.
to wit: black and decker accidentally invented a hammer that bends nails, and smashes fingertips.
The stick has a third end - people added an IR transmitting filter so they could record in near-IR during daylight.
yup user behaviour! aftersale mods!
The name just goes well with it, the "HandyCam".
One can think of a pun for the second term too
I thought the link in the article about FDR also quite interesting. https://commonplacefacts.com/2022/02/23/fdrs-fishing-trip-an...