[Leica] Flowers in Ultra-Violet

[montoid at earthlink.net (Montie)]

Leonard, as one experimenter to another, this is excellent work.
UV-2 especially...very neat approach.

Should all the superb flower shooters on this list ever collaborate
on a book, it would surely grace coffee tables throughout the land.

Montie
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> Leonard Taupier wrote:
>
> > The flowers were exposed with Ultra-Violet light from a black light  in
> > an otherwise totally dark room.
> >
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/UV/UV_1.jpg.html>
> >
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/UV/UV_2.jpg.html>
> >
> > Please comment on what you think.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > No attempt was made to color correct. The 403 filter is a nearly  black,
> > red filter.
> >
> > 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