Industrial CCD cameras can also be good "see-through" devices. Particularly monochrome (black and white) CCD cameras which have very high NIR sensitivity. This is because, generally, monochrome cameras don't need any ICF in-between optical lens and the CCD to correct the colour tones.

Conversely, all color CCD cameras have an ICF in-between the optical lens and the CCD. Thus, colour CCD cameras can be regarded to be the same as normal camcorders in NIR sensitivity and any other features with the exception that the ICF inserted in some color CCD cameras is often different from one inserted in normal camcorders as mentioned in Digital Camera section. If you are going to modify your colour CCD camera you need to consider the difference. Some example types of CCD cameras are shown here: