Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Flowers in Ultra-Violet
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Fri Dec 15 16:51:02 2006
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Ric,

Thanks. Hard to come close to the Friday flower crew though. ;>)

Len

On Dec 15, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Ric Carter wrote:

> NEAT!!
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> Ric
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> On Dec 15, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Leonard Taupier wrote:
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>> The flowers were exposed with Ultra-Violet light from a black  
>> light in an otherwise totally dark room.
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>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/UV/UV_1.jpg.html>
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>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/UV/UV_2.jpg.html>
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>> Please comment on what you think.
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>> The camera was a D2X at 20 sec exposure
>> Lens an El-Nikkor 105mm f5.6  at f11 mounted in a Nikon PB4  
>> bellows with a homemade F to LTM adapter
>> Focus was in incandescent light.
>> Exposure black light only, using a hot mirror filter and a B+H 403  
>> UV bandpass filter.
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>> No attempt was made to color correct. The 403 filter is a nearly  
>> black, red filter.
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>> I tried the same setup using a D200 and even with a 6 stop  
>> exposure increase no image was produced.  Totally black.
>>
>> As a retired engineer I can't stop experimenting. I just think  
>> it's fun. Hope you enjoy it.
>>
>> Len
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