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Old 02-14-2003, 04:39 AM
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I'm having trouble getting this exotic polish. Anyone have a supplier they recomment?

Incidently, I just applied PhotoBlocker on my licence plates and
about to consider it a hoax. I used my camera to taking pitures such as a traffic cameras would. But the images only faded out the state and years around the periphery of the licence, but didn't degrade the raised numbers. Time will tell but meanwhile I'm not recommending spening $35 for the unknown efficacy. Thinking back I feel stupid falling for this but they did have a Fox News report with the Denver PD.

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Old 11-27-2005, 01:17 AM
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I just heard about this stuff.

It seems from the News reports linked to their website that it works well, but it could be a dubbed video. If it does indeed work then I'm all for it seeing as how here in San Francisco there are way to many red light cameras.
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Old 11-27-2005, 04:47 AM
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I had forgotten about this post in Dec 2002.

Re: Finish First - I found a supplier in KY.

Re: Photoblock: But there is an update. The following summer after I applied the PhotoBlock, it turned my license plates yellow. I happened onto the company owner at Pebble Beach concours and confronted him. He said 'That's never happened before'. Yeah sure.

Bottom line. Save your money. I don't get tickets because of the way I drive and hear that camera tickets are easy to beat anyway. Just insist on having your accuser confront you in person. Case dismissed.
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Old 11-27-2005, 10:41 AM
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Finish first polish is available on line from Jerry Jones at "for my mercedes.com" . Also lots of good stuff for your Merc.

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Old 11-27-2005, 04:18 PM
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Last night I read a thread on Benzworld about the Photoblock junk. Basically someone who was an expert in photography who is a member of Benz tested it and proved in doesn't work, what a scam!
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Old 11-28-2005, 12:34 AM
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In principle, it's theoretically possible for this sort of stuff to work. The clear plastic overlays apparently use polarization to make the field of view of the licence plate # very narrow. I think that this is fairly easy for police to detect, and in many states putting any kind of a cover over the plate is not legal.

A sprayon might contain something like extremely shiny glass or aluminized beads that reflect the flash extremely well and overwhelm the camera chip's dynamic range, producing a "white outed" area. The beads that projection TV screens are sprayed with would be perfect for this. Don't know if it would work, though.

I've considered that it would be possible to build the equivalent of a photographer's "slave flash" - that is, if a sensor on the back of the car detected an overwhelming shot of light (from the camera's flash), a xenon bulb mounted near the license plate would also fire, again overwhelming the camera chip. This doesn't seem possible to do, being so fast, but photographers have equipment that does this all the time, and such a device would definitely and certainly work, much like ECM in warfare. If this was used at night, I wouldn't want to be the guy behind such a device. I'd build it myself but I drive pretty carefully, we don't have these things around here, and I don't see these things as a threat to me...yet.
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Old 11-28-2005, 12:55 AM
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Just check this out: http://www.benzworld.org/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1186363&posts=91

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