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Elsa - Just arrived home.

John Campbell

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cbain said:
Hey John , I am really glad you got a Savannah kitten and I know will spend many happy years with the spotted flash, my question is have you ever done night vision photos ? I have set of mid 1980's Cold war night vision Soviet binoculars and they work very well but they do have a green cast , A good friend joined Legion Etrangere in 1996 and see's this optic common in African armies today. have you tried NV photo ?
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Interesting you should ask that... I worked for ITT (EOPD - Electro Optical Products Division) a long time ago, and yes I am very familiar with them. i was an Electronics Tech. the green you are talking about is from the Green Phosphors that illuminate the dark. The cameras that I use for night vision are not true night vision, but in reality they use IR (Infrared ) Illuminators. This converts the color camera to black and white.

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you can see her sleeping on her back... I think Jake may have woken her up, because she moved around again, but has laid back down...
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You will note in this image in particular that it appears out of focus... In reality it is not, it is just what the IR illuminators do to it.

This way I do not have to worry about what she is into and know she is safe... I wonder what the chances of her sleeping all night. She has been sleeping now for about 1 hr 40 minutes approx.. I know she had to be tired, but as long as she could see me she was going to keep pushing it.
 
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Mentioning the Goggles, back in the early 80's, a few of us went out driving on the roads with no lights... It was fun... It was a little harder to explain it to the cops why our lights were off and we all had night vision goggles on... LOL, glad we had our ITT badges :) that got us off the hook.
 
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Checked on Elsa ever hour or 2... She moved around in her bed a little. Stayed quiet all night long. I know she did not sleep all night long, because there is evidence of her dry food spread across the floor and a few feet of Toilet Paper pulled off the roll.... At 7 AM when I got up she was still asleep, maybe I woke her, trying to be quite, but she was up and rolling full steam by 7:30.

WOW, this morning she sure had a lot of energy. Yesterday she would not climb, jump or show any emphasis to do so.... this morning she ate well, used the litter box perfectly (started her toilet training, but right now it is just on the floor (2 weeks minimum). She jumped on top of the commode and if that was not a feat for her she then jumped onto the side of the tub... Walked over to the camera, smacked it, then jumped down into the tub to investigate. I put one of the cameras down at her level and set the water to a trickle... Did not get any good footage of it, but she was interested, but not yet a brave enough to check it out... She then jumped out of the tub, ran over to her climbing post and climbed straight up to the top, and then tried to get to the counter.. She was not able to make it to the counter, but I am sure that the counter will not be off limits for much longer.....

yesterday with me laying on the floor she would climb up on my chest and lay down... Today, she would run up on my chest and just full of energy... I guess yesterday she was just exhausted, and having flown a lot I know the feeling. She has not shown any signs of stress or distress. She seems to trust me, and when she sees me she comes running, and barely lets me leave the room and when I return she goes full throttle...
 
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You have to love a face like this, no matter where it is sitting :rolleyes::rolleyes:

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And no, I was not waiting with the camera for that shot. This is from video for the Toilet Training... So far she is showing a 100% score with no misses...
 
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