There will be a new forthcoming three episode series airing in Spring 2012 narrated and written by Sir David Attenborough, which mainly is about Kew Gardens in the UK (working title was "Kew 3D"). It was produced by Atlantic Productions (Colossus Productions) for SKY 3D TV and directed by Martin Williams. Sir David Attenborough will be the presenter and guide through the episodes.
It has been filmed in HDTV 3D stereo mainly intended to be aired in SKY's 3D channel.
According to imdb it will be released in May 2012
Reference: Kingdom of Plants on imdb
The DVD/BlueRay will be available from July 16, 2012 onwards and may already be preordered at amazon here as DVD and here as Blue Ray (HD) version
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
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011
[UV] BBC Green Planet Series - The Science of Plants - How to Grow a Planet
There will be a new major BBC 3x 60min series, produced by BBC Scotland which will be aired on BBC TWO most likely in spring 2012. The current working title of the series is "Green Planet" and it will be presented by geologist and Professor Iain Stewart.
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(c) BBC London
My UV part will be shown in the "The Science of Plants" section. So what you'll see will be some of my recent work, for instance Rudbeckia
as well as Hemerocallis, Zinna and Bidens, just to name some.
As soon as I know more details or have the schedule when this will be aired on BBC TWO, I'll let it know here.
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
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(c) BBC London
My UV part will be shown in the "The Science of Plants" section. So what you'll see will be some of my recent work, for instance Rudbeckia
as well as Hemerocallis, Zinna and Bidens, just to name some.
As soon as I know more details or have the schedule when this will be aired on BBC TWO, I'll let it know here.
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
Sunday, December 25, 2011
[UV] Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) details in ultraviolet light
A good friend sent a wonderful Christmas Bouquet which also included deep red Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) blossoms, I have already published about it here on my BLOG. Now UV closeups of that one, shot using a UV-Planar 60mm and my UV sensitive camera. Filter used for the reflected UV shots was the Baader-U filter and a modified high power Xenon flash served as light source.
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Closeup including stigma and stamen:
the petal surface:
an finally the glowing stigma:
Doesn't that look like "pure amethyst"?
Impressive how much such a beautiful Christmas Gift may reveal, even if it is invisible to our human eyes...
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
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Closeup including stigma and stamen:
the petal surface:
an finally the glowing stigma:
Doesn't that look like "pure amethyst"?
Impressive how much such a beautiful Christmas Gift may reveal, even if it is invisible to our human eyes...
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
Saturday, December 24, 2011
[UV] Christmas Bouquet
A good friend sent a wonderful Christmas Bouquet - so here it is as it looks like in reflected ultraviolet light. It was shot using my UV sensitive camera and a Noflexar 35mm lens. Filter used for the UV shot was the Baader-U filter and a modified high power Xenon flash was the light source used.
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So I wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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
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So I wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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
Friday, December 23, 2011
[UV, VIS] Hippeastrum (Amaryllis)
This is about Hippeastrum or as it is called here, Amaryllis, usually sold around Christmas time. It was shot using my UV sensitive camera and a Cerco 94mm lens. Filter used for the UV shot was the Baader-U filter and a modified high power Xenon flash served as a light source.
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UV:
VIS:
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
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UV:
VIS:
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
Friday, November 25, 2011
[UV,VIS,IR] Staeble Lineogon f3.5 / 35mm wide angle lens for reflected UV
Here some test results using the Staeble Lineogon 3.5/35mm lens for reflected UV photography, as well as for IR after having done some successful transmittance tests as shown here on my BLOG
VIS:
UV:
VIS-UV differential:
IR:
VIS-IR differential:
UV-IR differential:
[please ignore the shadow image in the last three images caused by ND+IR stacked filters, this is unrelated to the lens performance]
In summary one could say that the lens performs quite well; there is some focus shift, but rather small. No wonder actually, since Stable was the subcontractor of Novoflex, so the Noflexar 3.5/35mm and the Lineogon 3.5/35mm share the same optics based on my research. The mechanics are different though, as the Lineogon has a quite smaller barrel and also lacks the close-up focusing mechanism teh Noflexar is so famous for. It also has a M39 thread mount, but not a Leica register, as it once was made for the Braun PAXETTE camera, having a 44.0mm register.
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
VIS:
UV:
VIS-UV differential:
IR:
VIS-IR differential:
UV-IR differential:
[please ignore the shadow image in the last three images caused by ND+IR stacked filters, this is unrelated to the lens performance]
In summary one could say that the lens performs quite well; there is some focus shift, but rather small. No wonder actually, since Stable was the subcontractor of Novoflex, so the Noflexar 3.5/35mm and the Lineogon 3.5/35mm share the same optics based on my research. The mechanics are different though, as the Lineogon has a quite smaller barrel and also lacks the close-up focusing mechanism teh Noflexar is so famous for. It also has a M39 thread mount, but not a Leica register, as it once was made for the Braun PAXETTE camera, having a 44.0mm register.
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
[UV] Tested transmittance of eight 35mm wide angle lenses for reflected UV
I conducted a test today to measure the UV transmittance of some older manual focus lenses I had sitting around, all f = 35mm and all having either M39mm or M42mm thread mount, so may easily be adapted onto modern DSLR's, if their back focal length fits the camera register.
Be reminded that this is only a test of the suitable UV transmittance, not of other important parameters for UV photography (sharpness, contrast, freedom of flare or hotspots etc.)
Of course the well known Novoflex Noflexar 35mm stands out as a very well transmitting lens and it is actually not a surprise that the Staeble Lineogon does about equally well - it is the same optics inside as Novoflex subcontracted to the German company Staeble to design their optics, which my own research concluded. Be reminded that the Lineogon was made for the PAXETTE camera with M39 thread mount, but for a 44mm register (so is NOT Leica compatible, but helps to adapt as it allows for 15mm more space).
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
Be reminded that this is only a test of the suitable UV transmittance, not of other important parameters for UV photography (sharpness, contrast, freedom of flare or hotspots etc.)
Of course the well known Novoflex Noflexar 35mm stands out as a very well transmitting lens and it is actually not a surprise that the Staeble Lineogon does about equally well - it is the same optics inside as Novoflex subcontracted to the German company Staeble to design their optics, which my own research concluded. Be reminded that the Lineogon was made for the PAXETTE camera with M39 thread mount, but for a 44mm register (so is NOT Leica compatible, but helps to adapt as it allows for 15mm more space).
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
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