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the camera and lens with support mount at the local high school track
used by the author each week usually at 5 a.m. The performances of
the lenses described with the Palm IR camera are shown by the
figures that follow.
Figure 6.8 shows the images produced by the CBC America Zoom
IR lens mounted on the Palm IR camera. The top image is in the nar-
row field mode, and the bottom is the wide field mode image. The
object is a person in a darkened warehouse 160 ft from the camera. He
is standing between two machines against the back wall. The machinery
FIGURE 6.8 Photographs demonstrating the performance of the CBC America
Zoom IR lens mounted on the Palm IR camera.
