Having received a photo ticket from a toll booth camera that was pointed almost
directly into the setting sun (the picture of my car clearly showed the sun I
was driving into) I'm a bit dubious about the ability of a small UV lamp to
screw up the camera. Remember, these are high resolution digital units, not
old fashioned plastic film units. The computer digitizing the pixels does not
suffer film washout. This is why a digital camera and computer can take and
create an excellent photograph of the darkened interior of a building through
the doorway or window, while outside in the bright sun.
As for the dire warnings about using a UV lamp and how difficult they are to
obtain, bovine feces. They are commonly sold in pet stores as part of a pond
or aquarium filtration unit. They are called UV sterilizers. Not cheap, but
quite common and available.
One of the most effective (if ugly and illegal) methods of hiding the licence
plate is mechanical. From a bunch of narrow and long tubes covering the plate
making it only visible when viewed straight down the tubes, to a James Bond
like flip up plate. A less ugly technique of the tubes would be a derivation
of essentially a polarized lens over the plate. There are some of these
around, but I've never seen one that was anything but straight line reflecters,
so if the camera is off the blocked angle, the plate is clearly visible to the
camera. You would want a series of baffles cut at different angles like a
honeycomb. This I have never seen on the market.
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