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Epic4G Camera detects IR?

I recently went out and bought a Kinect for the 360. After playing around with it and working to have it work correctly, I rigged it up on pole for testing and took a picture with the phone because of the redneck-ish way its just sitting up there (too good not to share).
When looking at it (the photo), I noticed that the IR port on the Kinect was glowing in the photo (violet). I've got the photo on my phone, but its too large to directly attach and I've got no access to places like photobucket while at work. I'll have to post it later..
So.. Anyone else have any experience with the Epic4G Camera picking up IR signals?

Can't wait for pics
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Here it is.. notice the green "on" light. On the kinect, the left most is the IR source. Glowin purple *shrug*
Yes. Its a PVC pipe. No, there is no base. No, the sensor is not attached in any way. It was oddly secure just sitting up there.
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I thought this was known already here's a picture I took a whole back of my remote
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Ahh. I didn't know that! Kind of was weird when I saw the photo, ergo the question. Thanks!
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Lots of cameras detect bits of the IR spectrum. Cameras, unlike people see all the electromagnetic energy that hits their sensors. They typically have filters to dampen this effect but I can't remember having a camera that didn't see a little bit of infrared. It is the same with the Wii in my house.
Posting epic posts straight from my Epic 4G.

Its a digital camera thing. Film wouldn't have this issue, but its about the way that the sensors on digital cameras detect light.

That is some trippy isht. Thank you for posting
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That PVC kinect stand is nothing to be embarrassed of! Now that border along your ceiling is another story! lol j/k!
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Win a FREE Laser-Etched XDA Backplate

Just FYI, we're holding a contest that may be relevant to your interests:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/win-a-laser-etched-xda-backplate-for-your-galaxy-nexus
Good luck!

This IS relevant to my interests. Good looking out.

Cool contest. And its good to know that there is a guy that is printing custom ones. I've had some ideas running through my head that I was wondering if they could get done.

Thanks. Entered!

Can it be done with experiences of other devices too?

Can we by any chance buy one ourselves without competing?
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Razer(x) said:
Can it be done with experiences of other devices too?
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Yep, any device.
prking07 said:
Can we by any chance buy one ourselves without competing?
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Yes. Visit the GRUVER concepts link in the contest. It should be available for purchase there.
Edit: Here's the link: http://www.gruverdesigns.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=20

This contest discriminates against people like me who read instructions properly and therefore have never had a bad flashing experience!

Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.

ericshmerick said:
Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.
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It can if too much power is applied. In this case no. It just etches the surface.

ericshmerick said:
Wouldn't a laser melt the plastic back of the GNEX? Serious question.
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phaze one said:
It can if too much power is applied. In this case no. It just etches the surface.
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The most important part is not the amount of power (or pulse energy) but the pulse duration (you use pulsed lasers for this kind of stuff). If the pulse duration is shorter or almost as short as the heat transfer duration between the atoms/molecules, melting is not a problem any more.
The pulse is "gone" before the heat can effect the nearby matter. You will get really sharp edges.

To win this would be awesome but I've never had any problems flashing anything so "unfortunately" I can't enter the competition, on the other hand I'm fortunate to never had any devices bricked!

great
Thanks for sharing, just bad when i read the others and see i was the daftest lol.
i know it shuts on the 23rd (i think) but when will the winner be announced? i can imagine it may take a while to read all the entrys lol,

Do you know if the cdma version will work on sprints version of the phone? Planning on getting mine sunday. Unfortunetly I can't think of any good stories that surpass those. But I do have my fair share since the days of winmo.

nice. thanks for posting.

Thanks for posting! I"ll have to think of my scariest moment for a bit.

Thanks! I posted my own scary incident back when I had my AT&T Tilt (Kaiser).

Just to give an example of the quality of the back cover, here's the one I had designed. Courtesy of Gruver Concepts (the company holding the contest with XDA)
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The detail is explicit that even the fine lines of my logo were etched with perfection.

This is such a cool contest! I just submitted my story. Would be awesome to combine my just ordered GSM Galaxy Nexus with an XDA branded back cover!
Think you'll enjoy my short story about attempting to update my brand new Nexus One while hiding in the work bathroom and thinking I ruined the phone

Quick update for all who entered...
Just a quick update for all those who entered:
We received over a hundred contest entries, most of which were quite epic (perhaps even of the 4g variety)! Picking just 20 winners (10 GSM, 10 CDMA/LTE) was tough, so I added in 3 bonus winners who forgot to write in what type of Nexus they own, but still provided excellent stories. I will send those three an XDA-Developers T-Shirt instead.
Winners will be announced in an hour, at 11:30a Eastern time. At that point, I will shoot off PMs to the lucky few who had the most entertaining and spine-tingling stories asking for their mailing address.
Thank you to all those who participated in the contest. It's amazing how many crazy tales our mobile devices bring us!

21 Windows Phones on one table

Heya,
today we were grabbing a beer with Microsoft:
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More pics here
(Who finds me has a useless point at me! )

your phone is the last left

Wow, that sure is a lot of phones. 21 phones for 21 people, right? Otherwise, you're insane.

Nope, my phone is the flipped one on the right side, blue tiles.
I ment who finds me in the other pictures, the REAL me, not my phone
Yes, it was 21 phones per >21 users of course.

nice meeting
majority of omnia 7?
lol, my proud!
a question... is the 4th from right to left at the bottom line with orange tiles the new omnia m? i cannot detect it...

No Omnia M on this picture, only in the "more pics" link there is on the 6th photo being held by our WP TL . We weren't allowed to make photos

OndraSter said:
Nope, my phone is the flipped one on the right side, blue tiles.
I ment who finds me in the other pictures, the REAL me, not my phone
Yes, it was 21 phones per >21 users of course.
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You're definitely the guy with the dark striped shirt, your phone is giving you away

Nope, that's not me, that guy is actually playing with the Omnia M I think (they look so similar on photos! )

cool but one of them is a Android, or? the right of the two Nokia's in the middle. i see some of the OS of Android

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cool but one of them is a Android, or? the right of the two Nokia's in the middle. i see some of the OS of Android
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itsan n9 running ICS via nitdroid, he made a sexy device garbage.

That's insane!

Quite expected, because most Microsoft employees do receive their work phones from the company for free.

cant see any HD2's there?

also, no Mozart love!
EDIT: Interesting to see that the bright theme is rarely used.

am i the only one who thinks the way the nokias reflect the light makes their digitisers look like they are made of cheap plastic (don't know from experience, touched a wp7 nokia)

OndraSter said:
Heya,
today we were grabbing a beer with Microsoft:
More pics here
(Who finds me has a useless point at me! )
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That's a big waste of money SMH
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GNex won the TIPA award.

Not sure if this has been posted, but our Galaxy Nexus sits on the same pantheon as the acclaimed Leica M9, Canon 1dx, 5d3 and Nikon d800 cameras.
Link: http://www.tipa.com/english/XXII_tipa_awards_2012_13042012103433.php?iExpand1=70
For those non photography types, TIPA is a some sort of independent association form by various press entities to award great photographic products.
www.tipa.com

Strange since everyone complains about the camera.

I don't complain about the camera, bests my old Thunderbolt's 8MP shooter.
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Strange since everyone complains about the camera.
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not me, im constantly trying to show people that its an awesome camera. people just dont know how to use it. they expect the camera to do all the work for them, but it only does what you tell it to do. plus its really important to keep that back lens cover smudge free.
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As per the above poster, I also love the GNex camera. It takes some getting used to but it takes better pictures than pretty much any other camera on a phone I have ever seen.

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not me, im constantly trying to show people that its an awesome camera. people just dont know how to use it. they expect the camera to do all the work for them, but it only does what you tell it to do. plus its really important to keep that back lens cover smudge free.
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Very nice pics. I personally don't have an opinion, my eyes are not the best, and I've never had a good eye for capturing photography myself. I just use the camera casually and it works fine for me. What I meant was the general consensus on the camera is that it is poor, that is what the websites and reviews and even users all complain about. It may just be a common misconception, but it's widely the accepted view, accurate or not.

Not better than my SGN. I am still pleased i didnt go for gnex and opted a note last year.
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TIPA didn't evaluate image quality only, but the whole pack of good screen, zero-lag shutter, 1080p recording and some other goodies.
TIPA meeting was on 24th March 2012, so it's understandable why they choose Galaxy Nexus.

All I can say about the camera is, its the only camera that can take colour accurate images of my coral reef aquarium. I've tried several cameras and other phones and its way off. Mind you I've learned the best settings for that application is simply changing it to cloudy.
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"what would we actually use 100x zoom on?"

"what would we actually use 100x zoom on?"

On whatever you want. You don't want that much of a zoom then would suggest the s20 or plus.
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alleshi said:
"what would we actually use 100x zoom on?"
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To save energy. Instead of walking far to the horizon you just zoom it in to see what's there

Duh... use it to look for "sharks" on the beach...

Realistically, I feel that 100X zoom is a little more of a "cool feature" that doesn't have any use due to the digital loss of clarity. However, I believe the improved optical telephoto could be used for catching photos of off-limit areas like protected wildlife zones, etc.

Reading a sign far away!

alleshi said:
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Anything!
- Would use it to rant about how unusably blurry and dull the outcome is.

I don't think it's going to be useful at all. But lossless 5x seems really good way of compressing the image. Looks like it's a ~100mm equivalent. Have high hopes for 10x hybrid too.

I'm probably going to use it just to show off once or twice and then never again. It'll only really be usuable in good light anyway

Probably only once or twice to show off just like Samsung did in the presentation. It is only a statement that they can do it but on the other hand I think that if the hardware & software is capable of 100x then 5x & 10x must be top quality.

The hot chick next door lol. Lawsuits will happen within 6 months
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There are mountain areas of California where I might search for aminals wandering around that are way far away.

At my eye doctor's office to read those damn tiny letters, also probably to read the same letters at local MVD eye test

A reviewer said to think of it more if binoculars when your eyes can't see the object. I do a lot of hiking and I think this feature will be awesome to see things that I'll never be able to get to.

I intend to use it at the Shooting range instead of having to bring my large spotting scope.

Perving no doubt.
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Id say some freaks will have it on the beach to stare at womens buttcracks
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alleshi said:
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To show off, it's grainy and probably going to be a nasty image, so really it's just to say I can do 100x zoom..if you and a tripod though and a clear day it would be interesting to see what would come out