Syntronics Forensic Systems Division develops and manufactures equipment for detecting and
enhancing latent fingerprints and blood samples —LatentMaster.
The detection of Latent fingerprints is enhanced by the ability to use a variety of light sources
spanning the optical spectrum. LatentMaster is the only workstation which has a proprietary,
high sensitivity solid state video camera (not a CCD camera) with all quartz optics that spans the
spectrum from infrared (1100 nm) to deep ultra-violet (200 nm)
. The camera sees what the human eye cannot, and the image is displayed, in real time,
on a high resolution computer monitor. In many cases latent fingerprints can be detected and lifted without chemical
treatment, using ultra-violet absorption, ultra-violet reflection, or ultra-violet fluorescence.
The LatentMaster UV Viewer is the only UV Viewer
on the market with a low distortion lens custom
designed specifically for imaging in the UV
spectrum. There is no better hand-held UV Imager
available, at any price!
With this UV Viewer, there is no more blind film
photography, no time wasted waiting for film to
develop, no more being tied to a computer for
digital pictures, no more carrying around a
large, complex system to get images from UV
searches. The untreated latent print shown was
found and then lifted from a file cabinet using
the Latentmaster UV Viewer system with 254 nm UV
illumination.
The LatentMaster UV Viewer is easy to take to
the crime scene, since it is small and battery
operated. Real time UV viewing means that the
crime scene can be quickly and thoroughly
searched for latent fingerprints or trace
evidence visible only in the Ultra-violet
spectrum. Clearly identifiable latent
fingerprints seen with the UV viewer can be
photographed with the digital camera through the
UV Viewer. Items of evidence with less clear
features discovered with the LatentMaster UV
Viewer can be brought to the laboratory and
examined with the LatentMaster 2004 Digital
Latent Fingerprint Workstation's superior UV
imaging capability, or chemically treated to
allow photographing the latent fingerprint in
the visible spectrum.
The latent fingerprint below is from an actual case, deposited on electrical tape used in constructing a letter bomb.
The latent was lifted with UV illumination and enhanced using LatentMaster Fingerprint Software.
