AboveTopSecret.com And Robbie Williams Investigate UFOs at Gilliland Ranch, page 8

Someone had asked several questions about the cameras being used and why not use more digital mediums.

First off, I made a post at the bottom of this thread that has links to a variety of areas where you can purchase a NightOwl NV 20/20. It has a composite video output (sorry no audio) and has a variable and manual gain with a 2.6 optical lens. We used a Sony GV-A500 Hi-8 portable walkman as it will record for 2 hours. When one is out in the field, you don't want to have to think about if you've got enough time left on a DV tape which in general to shoot high-quality your really only going to get 15-30 minutes worth depending on make and manufacture and then have to swap out tapes. That just means the more chance of my having a capture and I run out of tape. Also I've had a number of Digital units not capture what was captured on a analog system even though they were side by side focused and targeted on the same object. WHY? I don't have a clue, but I don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out if one medium doesn't work (regardless if I understand the why's or not) to lean towards the medium that does work.

The NightOwl 20/20 link, scroll to bottom of the page
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OK... with that out of the way...

The Sony Daylight Camcorder is a 1998 modified X-R series. This was one of the shortest series for Sony as it had a variable Infrared shutter/exposure that could be used during the daytime.Sad thing is, it was so good that many were using it for nefarious reasons as it was purported that with the use of additional lenses, you could see through peoples clothing. So an outrage ensued and Sony quickly took them off the market and came back with a series that could not be used during the daytime, ironically the series that they recalled was called the X-Ray series (go figure). Not to many of these rare puppies exist anymore and I searched for darn near 9 and half years for one. When I finally found one, I paid an exuberant amount of money for it. But it does work and this event was it maiden voyage for UFO searching/capturing. The added 750nm IR filter was to help narrow the light spectrum down to a frequency that I had discussed with Patrick Bailey (a former NASA Scientist and UFOlogist) and my own experiments for the past 5 years with daylight SLR capture photography.

And I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that shooting at in it's least at 5,000 a second and getting fairly clean captures is all I care about regardless of the medium used. Might not be exactly what you want to hear, but that does say something for the older model equipment. It's sort of like Johnny himself, it works, so stop trying to replace it with a newer model that's going to break down, quit or not do what it's supposed to do.

Johnny