Monday, February 21, 2011

[UV] Lilly "retro style" using UV-Sonnar 105mm and Polaroid film

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Today a leap back in time. Let's dig out the old photo gear and see what could be done with that. Let's go retro!! So I grabbed my...

White Lilly - a surprising lens find for UV and VIS w/o focus shift II

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Well, a while ago I was doing these "Psychedelic Lilly" test shots here . Prior to that I had taken UV transmission tests of that...

[UV] EL-Nikkor 80mm for UV - old vs. new type

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As I was testing (again) lenses for UV photography, I had done spectrometric tests on Nikon EL-Nikkor enlarger lenses . The question arose, ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

ZEISS contest "Light is my Language" : made 5th place

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Just out of curiosity and since the title “Light is my Language” matched the intentions of my work, I had submitted this photo at flickr to...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

CERCO f4.1/94mm UV-VIS-NIR lens test

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Well, I recently bought that CERCO f4.1/94mm UV-VIS-NIR lens made by SODERN in France (type 2085). It is no longer available on stock (but ...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Filter glass requirements for camera modification

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Modification of a camera dedicated to IR or UV needs the replacement of the internal cut filter in front of the camera sensor by a suitable ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

New shutter control unit seems to spoil UV + IR images for modified cameras

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Bad news for us UV or IR shooters: It seems that Nikon has introduced for their newest DSLRs (D3, D3x, D3s, D700, D7000) an intelligent ...