Saturday, July 9, 2011

[UV] getting closer, using diopter lens

Today about getting closer for reflected UV work. The old and simple method is to add a diopter (meniscus) lens. Will that work also here?

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Standardized reflected false UV "colors" according to the previously described "UV color palette" related to wavelength.

Standardized false UV color normal and high intensity palette:





It seems to work well obviously and the loss of UV transmission got compensated and the colors also acceptably represented (after proper whitebalancing).

Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos