A paranoic-vegan naked guy (let me have some fun describing him) made that very (un)scientific test to claim the [shoplink 35573 ebay]RX100m3[/shoplink] is a dangerous radioactive camera. And he used a $34 ghost hunting Gauss Master (here on Amazon) to measure the radiation (LOL!).
I saw the video posted on some forums and thought it would be good the debunk the myth also with the little help of Marc Morris. He commented the video and said:
Remarkable paranoia. I’m impressed with your commitment but remain thoroughly UNswayed. All communicative products have screens of various properties and have EMR output that is negligible at best. Your HDTV makes the camera look like a piker, your cellphone is ALWAYS on and and is either on or near your person: no lead carrier blocks the radiation you’re so frightened of. It’s unavoidable. Most Gaussmeters of the cost effective variety will give seriously false readings when placed too closely to portable electronics like a cell phone or a camera: you are using a device that is not built to measure portable electronics accurately. What that thing is saying is that this RX100M3 is putting out a reading that meets the average reading of a hair dryer at normal usage distances, or that of standing underneath a transmission line outside a home (http://www.arpansa.gov.au/radiationprotection/factsheets/is_magfields.cfm). Asinine. The camera in its most nuclear phase could not do so. Prolonged exposure would mean hours set aside, of days and days on end of looking through the viewfinder without blinking, when in fact it is for mere seconds at a time and it would take months of work to have looked through the viewfinder for an hour in total. The premise and the good will are noted and lauded. The lack of thorough education is, on the other hand, absolutely not.
So please don’t be scared by the video. Just don’t use your RX100m3 while drying your hair and you will be fine 🙂
Disclosure:
Dear vegan readers, I am not anti Vegan and I only tried to make some fun. So please take it easy.
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I still wonder about EVF’s as you’re in affect- placing your eye within mm’s of an electronic screen. Meh. I figure I’ll be dead before any of this stuff can kill me anyway.
They are NOT giving you small doses of radiation in the sense of being radioactive. The term radioactive came about from mysterious rays that emanated from certain elements. It wasn’t realised at the time, but those had the ability to cause what’s called “ionization”. That is they could strip electrons off of molecules. Much of this radiation was in the form of charged particles (alpha and beta), although there are very short wavelength electro-magnetic waves that contain enough energy to do it (Ultra-violet, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray). EM radiation of longer wavelengths (visible light, infra-red, microwave and radiowave) are incapable of doing this. They are only capable of warming up parts of the body at high levels. So don’t shine a laser into your eye; it will burn the retina, as it’s focusing energy into a very small space. However, the tiny amounts of EM energy from a camera are all at relatively long wavelengths and are so low powered they will have absolutely no effect. At least none that anybody has ever been able to measure.
Admittedly the terminology is confusing. But radiation does not equate to radioactive except in those cases of very short length types. A camera will not emit ionising radiation (apart from those old lenses which were made using uranium salts, but even then the quantities are tiny).
They are just making fun of me, I never said radioactive. They are probably afraid this video could effect their kick back of Sony camera sales, so they did what any organization wishing to “debunk” someone, they attack their character. They have not debunked anything, and EMF’s are an issue to be taken seriously.
some old lenses are actually radioactive 🙂 tell him that.
Yes , I have Konica hexanon 57mm f/1.2 , it’s radioactive.
glass is getting yellowish
1. It is not about radioactivity, a Gauss is a unit for the strength of magnetic fields.
2. Magnetic fields around electronics are perfectly normal.
3. A Milligauss is not much, the natural magnetic field of the Earth is around 0.3 to 0.6 Gauss.
From what I can see of that meter, it’s simply a scam device sold on the Internet to the suggestible (a group known as electro-magnetic hypersenstives). It would seem if it measures anything at all, it’s not magnetic flux density as such, but some sort of measure of electro-magnetic field strength tuned (perhaps) to mains frequencies (there are those convinced that they are made ill from electro-magnetic fields from mains powered devices).
These things have been blind-tested and nobody has every found any evidence that humans are susceptible to mains frequency electromagnetic fields, but that doesn’t stop people believing it. Applying it to a camera is rather novel though. I imagine there are all sorts of frequencies of signals which might be picked up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity
I bet that tool he used was measuring alcohol .. green area is very high .. red is very low
Oh yes, alcohol is usually mesured in milligauss…
I strongly suggest that name-calling (paranoid) should be avoided, especially as the Admin of this site. It serves no purpose for you and “having fun describing someone” isn’t particularly proper, either.
A commenter saying something like that is one thing, the Admin of a site, another.
That being said, his channel and the videos he makes can make us think that he is concerned about a thousand things around him (some of which we can see as silly) so that should be more than enough for us to take what he says with a big grain of salt.
Paranoia is the correct label for him. If the admin called him a swearword, that would be name-calling, and perhaps if the admin were making fun of a mental illness unrelated to him, your argument might be going somewhere, but in this case that is the correct label. Worry about the real atrocities in the world, not someone typing something. The admin is no different from a commenter. He bought some poor hosting, applied for an adsense account and uploaded wordpress
Are you offended? If so, why are you offended? If not, why post this? Go make your own site and post what you want on there.
Is not about being offended. It’s about having respect, especially when you run a site. You seemed offended, though.
the guy in the video has no idea what he measures, how it is measured, what effects are causing these emasurements and he certainly does not have evidence for his claim that ‘more than 2 mG are dangerous’. The earth’s natural magnetic field is at 30-60 mG, just for comparison.
There is no other diagnosis for this kind of guy than paranoid.
A physiscist
Let’s say the truth then.
Possibility to be Paranoid =
We don’t know, since we are not psychologists. Personally, I am a videographer, so (according to my experience with paranoid customers) I can say from the catatonic tone of his voice – but not sure – that something is not mentally right here. But this is my personal opinion, I coud not characterize someone as paranoid based on my videography experience.
Possibility to be Pervert =
Personally sure because is naked, exposed to my eyes and mostly in the www, in front of male, female and child viewers.
Possibility to be Dangerously Irrelevant to tecnology =
100%. I can say that for sure, as an electronics technician (…my previous job before I do videography for living)
Is my logic, logical enough for you sir?
So, basically, you are telling Admin what he should do in your opinion, where your opinion is that you are not offended, but someone else might potentially be, so this might affect the reputation of this here rumor blog? And all of this stemming from your idea that “paranoid” is name calling? It’s no wonder you side with the guy from the video.
Enough with the political correctness. How dumb should stuff be, so one is allowed to call it what it is?
Your political corrrectness run amok offends me, and my belief in plain language.
Please stop offending me. It’s disrespectful.
Hmm… ok then. Describing this “naked man” as a pervert would it be the right term for you sir? I personally don’t want to see again any naked man – or woman – or gay – or person – behind the camera talking about technology, and that is what makes my aesthetics gauss levels go red.
OK. Last reply, because you are not getting the point that I make.
It is not about what I, you, or anyone thinks about the guy. I don’t care what you think about him, or anyone for that matter. I also doubt you care about anything I say, bus since you bothered is replying:
It is about how Admin wants, or not, to be perceived by his audience if he jumps on a bandwagon of mocking or offending.
He runs a site with, likely, hundreds of thousands of visitors if not a million or two every month. As a person that has that much of an audience, it would be respectful enough not to “have fun describing” someone. Simple. I can say a lot of things about a lot of people. Who couldn’t? Who hasn’t met or seen someone they can “have fun describing”? That’s not my point. I don’t have his audience, and thank God I don’t need angry groupies coming at me for a point I didn’t make.
Sorry, but IMHO you didn’t make a point at all.
You’re being politically correct for the sake of it. People need to stop being so forgiving of these imbeciles. Calling someone paranoid, when they are paranoid, is not “name calling”. We associate name calling with swearwords and offensive words. Paranoia is something the guy clearly suffers from
Nothing you’ve said in this reply adds any more weight to your argument.
‘The Truth’ is right, this post is offensive. Hyphenating paranoid and vegan like that was completely unnecessary. What do vegans have to do with this?
And I’m saying this as a devout carnitarian.
I strongly suggest you find something better to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5XkhUGzBs
Class Action Suit, Who’s in?
I have a radioactive lens on my A57. It is the takumar 50mm f1.4 with radioactive coating.
What a Funny Guy, he talks about loosing hair from an EVF when it looks like he’s the one that’s loosing hair.. ?
A shaved head is losing hair? Check my more recent videos of my magical hair growing back lol.
Who’s sillier the guy who made the video or the people who actually watched it?
The title of this article is misleading and the youtube video is a bit miss-leading as well. Saying that something is “radioactive” implies the dangerous nuclear decay radiation, i.e. alpha, beta gamma rays.
While the guy in the video is measuring only electro-magnetic radiation!
Everything with a radio antenna, like laptop wifi adapter, routers, mobile phones, bluetooth devices, NFC devices, etc have way higher levels of EM radiation.
Of course it’s misleading! It has a smile at the end and the whole article is just to for fun (and a bit serious to debunk the myth).
Of course he doens’t measure radioactivity with a $34 ghost hunting machine 🙂
Fun at my expense, with misquotes and character attacks. And you didn’t debunk anything, search through the links in the description of my video and you’ll see plenty of evidence supporting my claim. No matter how poorly that video was constructed lol. If I thought it was going to get that many views with your sarcastic article, I might have put a shirt on, rehearsed a bit, and used a tripod 😉
Its true!!! I was one of the first to own the RX100III. I’ve walked around with it in my pocket everyday since I’ve owned it, and now I cant have children!!!!
What is EMF? Is that new name for EVF?
My comment above was supposed to be here.
That’s a hard search… Let me help you, EMF into Google, first return is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromotive_force
$32 Gauss meter = super high precision lab equipment, but wait, there is no accuracy specification, which makes his claims pointless.
As to the reviewer, I think there is a tree somewhere in the forest that needs a hug….
….And congratulations on your 15 microseconds of fame.
That’s a hard search… Let me help you, EMF into Google, first return is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromotive_force
Not much different than Edison’s propaganda against Alternating Current.
In June 1888, Edison began to demonstrate the lethal power of alternating current for reporters. He rigged a sheet of tin to an AC dynamo and led a dog onto the tin to drink from a metal pan. Once the dog touched the metal surface, it yelped and “the little cur dog fell dead.”
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edison-vs-westinghouse-a-shocking-rivalry-102146036
Of course Direct Current would do the same thing…
People are idiots… I mentioned soon after the incident with the fukishima nuclear reactors that cameras and related photography gear manufactured in or near the fallout zone would be contaminated. I believe the man has a valid point.
While at this topic: I once stumbled upon a great deal for Super Takumar 50/1.4. I already contacted the seller and then saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIEzsLB4dE
I bought Canon FD 50/1.4 instead 🙂
To be honest, I don’t quite understand the cult status of the Super Takumar 50/1.4, especially the older, non-radioactive version. What I saw so far is just a dreamy soft look like any other older f/1.4 lens.
Thorium elements were not uncommon a that time in the higher end lenses. Pentax was not the only camera company to use em. Without a Geiger counter, one way to make an educated guess as to whether a lens has a thorium element is if the lens element has yellowed over time. The yellowish tint can be retarded by leaving the lens exposed to the sun for a few days or week (I think I read the UV rays counteract the yellowing).
please delete this. If the man has a mental health issue, it is not fun to make fun of that. Please understand.
Come on guys, relax and stop teaching the admin and other readers about morality. This video is ridiculous, the guy is silly. Calling a silly guy silly and making fun of him is not an insult.
Silly is as silly does.
How do you know that? Not everyone talking nonsense has a mental issue. If diagnosis would be that easy, we wouldn’t need expensive doctors.
so if he’s not this and that, you would call him “dressed meat-eater” ???
After saw that I going to sell my equipment to buy again my Canon cameras. Keep save first ?
I appreciate the large percentage of level headed and mature people who have commented here so far. I stand by my video, no matter how poorly it was presented lol. The idea got through if you can look past the fact that it was hot and I had my shirt off. There is plenty of interesting information in the description box of my video for those who wish to look into this further.
Sony alpha rumors can attack my character all they want, they haven’t debunked anything about my video, other than debunking my professional film making skills lol. Check my recent videos to see how much better I got though! They were probably worried about their kickback sales from Sony cameras being effected, so they threw me under the bus with a complete disregard for how I would feel. That didn’t matter to them. It’s just one person right?
Live is short. Let’s have some fun 🙂
P.S.: You used a device not made to measure radiation properly. I guess you are aware that this is a big fault 🙂