[Leica] Leica Announcement (before the official announcement)

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

Let me try in layman's terms, since the technical description is a bit 
hard...

As the IR wavelengths hit the sensor, there is a sensitivity of each cell to 
the IR as well as visible light.  Yes, the IR should be
filtered out, but it is not.  As the sensor sees it, it is just plain light 
.. it CAN NOT discriminate between visible and IR
wavelengths....  As soon as it hits the sensor, it is now a recorded bit of 
data.  Since the sensor can not discriminate, the SW or
FW can not apply any rules of discrimination...... so you are stuck.  

Essentially, your statement below is correct..... and the fix is to filter 
out the unwanted wavelengths from hitting the sensor In
the first place... it is the ONLY fix.

Does this help?

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net 

 If the sensor is sensitive in the IR range it is just  
recording light levels and writing them out as bits. Are these values  
the same as those for light recorded in the visible spectrum