Sick of speed camera signs

http://www.actionimports.com.au/photo.htm

 

$60!!!!!!! What a ripoff. You can do a similar thing with Taft hair spray.

 

Does it actually work or is it some fancy photoshopping??

Robotman.

 

Well the number plate itself is highly reflective, so any crappy camera
with a flash would produce that effect.

You want to trust your licence to it?

Moike

 

I recall several years ago there was a trade stall doing the rounds of
the bike (and car) shows selling 'anti-camera' number plates, they
were at the NEC for the Bike Show and Performance Bikes took a snap of
the stall with their own high powered flash gun - result? Every one of
the 'stealth plates' totally legible.
Also, not sure about the various States/Territiories but UK law has a
nice little catch-all called "perverting (or attempting to pervert"
the cause of justice"; in other words trying to do something to allow
you to get away with an illegal act is, in itself, illegal and
actually punishable as a higher offence.
Not that I'm saying someone wouldn't want to give it a go and try
spraying stuff on their plate as a *ahem* protective coating....
Me? I just used to have a nice shiny bike with the dirtiest
numberplate in all christendom. They'll pull you over for that but not
do you.
Another one that was handy on the Speed Triple was a rag stuffed into
the tailpiece and (oh dear) it just happened to have slid out part of
the way so that it dangled over the plate - ok it waved about in the
wind but mates following me said that it did cover a portion of the
plate and unless they could prove within reasonable doubt that the
registration matched your bike on camera (a snapshot remember, not a
pursuit) then the case would fall over.

Cheers,

Jeffles

 

Hmm, looks like spam, smells like spam. Could it be?

 

The cameras have a polarised filter to take out the glare. Stuff
doesn't work
Geoff

 

so, all you need then is a polarised filter on your number plate at 90
degress to camera's filter then?

all we have to do it work out which way they have their filters. which could
be one of 360 deferent angles

mh

 

Crap

Given that polarising filters are used to reduce the glare from
reflections at high angles of incidence from flattish surfaces, how does
the polarising filter on a speed camera reduce the glare from a flash
that is pretty at much the same lowish angle angle of incidence as the
camera?

Given that the light is reflected mostly from the embedded glass beads
in the plate, so that the light would be reflected from a wide range of
internal surface orientations, a polarising filter would have about the
same effect as tinted glass.

(I don't believe it works, but I don't think polarising filters have
anything to do with it.)

Moike

 

For what it's worth:
A mate and I got some of this stuff (a lot cheaper than $60) and tested it,
using a fairly old Mavica digital camera. Several pictures were taken, with
and without flash. The number plate was completely illegible when flash was
used, even in broad daylight.
When no flash was used, on a cloudy overcast day, the number was partially
obscured.In bright sunlight it would probably have been even less legible.
Some of the pictures using flash were of my bike, parked under a tree to
simulate low light. Oyjhers were of a car number plate, taken from the rear.
The number plate on the car parked beside the test vehicle was as clear as
crystal, so the flash didn't create the same effect on an untreated plate.

To sum up, no I wouldn't trust my licence to it, but as an extra line of
defence against the money-grubbing scum, it can't do any harm.

Jimi.

Try this: http://www.photoblocker.com.au/

PS I think I've still got the pictures somewhere, if anybody's interested.

 

I didnt go to uni, but wouldn't 180 (insert conehead symbol here) be enough?

 

enough?


neither did I...year 10 physics.

you would only have to rotate your filter 180 degrees to work out which way
they have their filter ....but their filter could any of the 360 degrees

I fink that's right??


mh

 

No

The post was purely for information.

I don't give a **** if you buy it or not.

Jimi