The makers of
PhotoBlocker spray claim that their product will make your license plate invisible to photo radar, red light cameras, and infrared and laster cameras. Special crystals in the spray will reflect back the flash (or light source) used by these cameras, making your license look like a bright blur. Would this actually work? Would it be legal if it did? They say that the spray is invisible to the naked eye, which means that it won't be of much use if a cop pulls you over. Personally, I've always thought someone should make a stealth car, made out of the same material as the stealth airplanes. That would be cool. (via
Red Ferret)
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Dave from N.Y.
Course that all got to the point one in ten people know someone who has an uncle who has one mounted on an SHO that is constantly speeding without being ticketed 🙄
If these photoblocker sprays actually were retro-reflective (that
what's funny is that you don't have to pay the ticket, they won't put an arrest warrant on you like a real ticket, but you get bad credit cause they claim you owe them money. The actual company is based in Arizona, we have to pay the company in arizona, is that effed up or what? Personally I have never been caught by those cameras although on a couple of occasions i felt like "oh sh*t I'm sure I crossed that when it was red!", but no tickets as of yet :D
When using teh SPRAY your plate as instructed,
BUT NOW GET A CLEAR COVER, LIKE THE ONES FROM TEH DOLLER STORE AND SPRAY THE INSIDE OF THAT COVER A FEW TIMES LETTING IT DAY AND A FEW COTES ON TEH OUTSIDE AND LET IT DAY.
the reason for teh change is the cops are reversing the image with photoshop, so using the clear cover will give you a stronger flash back.
we were only notified by two people who sent us in a copy of the summons and you can tell the first picture of the whole car the spray worked, you cannot read the plate, but the close up of the plate was lightly able to read, but you can see the different shows now and tell what the cops did.
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they must be worried.
That said, Although it probably does work in ideal circumstances (if your plate is spotlessly clean and at the correct angle) Photoblocker spray is probably the least effective tool for defeating our unconstitutional speed cameras. But it is the most invisible. So if you're worried about anyone seeing your countermeasures it is your only option.
The most effective countermeasures are the clear lenses that distort the view of the plate when viewed at an angle. Despite the illegal nature of the lenses I've been driving around with them for just shy of four years and haven't had a problem with law enforcement.
In fact, the law enforcement personell that I've spoken to regard speed cameras the same as a clerk regards self-checkout registers. They're there to eliminate jobs. So as long as you're not driving like a nut it is doubtful you'll encounter a problem.
Any one who says this snake oil in a can works is lying through their teeth.
There is a big difference between driving on the edge through cities in a heavy vehicle, and normal travelling. It is expected that slowly accelerating vehicles, when negotiating their way through short straights (congested cities), will rarely manage high speeds; the higher speeds they do reach last for very short periods. Your comparison couldn
I have faxed one of the tickets to the makers per their request and have as of yet heard nothing.In my opinion, this is a scam product.
http://www.ketv.com/news/8068453/detail.html
So the best thing to do would be to see if it works for yourself and stop believing the bullshit on the news. I am turning off my TV for good as the bullshit is at an alltime high. WHY DO YOU THINK OBAMA HAS ALL THIS REPORTING ON HEALTH CARE, IT IS SUPPOSE TAKE OUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM WHAT HE IS DOING OVER IN AFGANISTAN!!!!!
"WHY DO YOU THINK OBAMA HAS ALL THIS REPORTING ON HEALTH CARE, IT IS SUPPOSE TAKE OUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM WHAT HE IS DOING OVER IN AFGANISTAN!!!!!"
Actually, it's even more insidious than that. If you look closely at the anchors on CNN, you'll see that they're actually all Obama wearing different masks. Yes, "President" Obama is the person READING THE NEWS. That way he can insure that the "news" is exactly what he wants it to be.
I don't know all the details of this vast conspiracy concerning health care and Photoblocker, but I'm sure it involves the pyramid with the eye on the back of the dollar bill in some way.
i was very interested in this topic that i read the whole 5 yrz thread.
regarding the spray thingy, from a photographer view and the radar cameras in our cameras, that think cannot work at all, let's go technical ..
in our country there r both digital and films speed cameras, both with flash built in which fires all the time no matter what is the time of the day.
as a photographer i would rather say that the flash is too strong that it wont affect the picture weather its in the daylight or in the night. cuz once u have a strong flash and there's sumthing reflective in the other side, everything surrounding becomes black .. it totally black out.
and yes we have a glowing plate numbers. to get a right picture, the aperture would be really small. the speeding cameras are so advanced in technology that it's being bought in $10,000(s) bills, its able to focus, fire a flash and process a picture in less than a second.
for those who claim it works .. i would rather say u jst got lucky with it, like what happened with me once, i was driving like 180+ one day and i got flashed, i went mad so i sped up more to reach 200+ sumthing, and guess what, i got flashed again, till this moment no speeding tickets (or got jailed).
yet u cnt depend on luck every time, u cnt live forever, cuz i got flashed once at 237 and i got ticketed, since it was my first "mad" thing i jst paid the ticket without getting jailed .. xD
since that day i never got a speeding ticket again, i drive up to the speeding limits (that's why cruse control was made for), i reach my destinations at the same time, and i can assure im gna come back in one piece.
When I took a picture to test it, they were all blurred beyong recognition.
Works well with my camera.
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Boy, you just can't argue with logic like that.
I've just received a can of Photoblocker spray, with the intention of doing objective, controlled, fully technically legitimate, irrefutable testing.
The spray was purchased directly from an official website, so there's minimal chance of it being a poor quality, cheap counterfeit.
I should say: there is no way I can prove if it absolutely works, but I can prove it if does absolutely nothing at all.
It does not increase the reflectivity of a UK legal retro-reflective registration plate (this being highly reflective anyway); in fact the spray slightly reduced the reflectivity. All it does is create a slightly rough, glossy surface. So much for "over-exposing"!
I cannot show the raw results as I used my own registration plate for the examination.
If I do get results that I can show, I will probably place them on the Safe Speed website.
I think you need to read the post prior to yours.
The spray does NOTHING; my half-plate testing proves this. Half of the plate was sprayed, the other half covered; this enabled a direct side-by-side comparison.
- It does not affect the retro-reflectivity of the characters
- It does not affect the retro-reflectivity of the background
Given these results, it is obvious that your idea cannot work.
Have any of you taken a photo of your car's license plate when the light conditions are such that the flash goes off... Go and have a look at your photos where there is a car in the background, or go and take a photo and have a look at it... Now-when you take ordinary photos of an ordinary (non-photblocked) car where the flash was triggered, you will notice that WITHOUT photoblocker, the naturally reflective surface of the plate is such that all you get is an overexposed licence plate - a white glare so bright that you can’t read the plate...
Now, consider this - if a NORMAL camera, taking a photo of a NORMAL plate, is enough to make the plate unreadable, it stands to reason that the authorities have long ago developed a camera/flash that does NOT glare like a normal camera would, in order for them to recognise your licence plate... and if they have done this FROM THE ONSET, what makes you think that you can outsmart their camera's by spraying a glossy/reflective finish over an already reflective surface, a catachrestic of a NORMAL, NON-PHOTOBLOCKED licence plate that was overcome years ago....????
I’m Sorry, but until their websites can explain SCIENTIFFICALLY how their product "reacts differently" to a flash, I will not buy it. Merely showing me a before and after photo of an effect my normal camera en licence plate does ANYWAY, is not going to convince me..