Now we only have to convince the camera-designers to make the IR- block filter removable, instead of requiring an expensive modification (or preventing any solution, by sandwiching the IR-block filter onto the sensor, like with the 1Ds (bastards, the 1D can be modified, the 1Ds can't)).
This is unlikely with any Japanese digital camera. Every summer, all of the networks do yet another scare story regarding bathing suits and IR filters on video cameras. They go down to the beach and show how most bathing suits are IR transparent. This has built up such a national frenzy that Mizuno made all of the olympic bathing suits IR opaque.
So far, this has only been focused on video cameras with Night Shot modes. I'm sure Canon/Nikon will do anything possible to make sure that there is never a TV news program on Canon EOS or Nikon F-digitals with IR features.
Karen
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