According this interesting discussion,
http://www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html
there are ways around the UV limitations of modern lenses. He
explains to look for non-multicoated, low lens element count, with no
cemented elements and then remove the front and back coating. That
kind of lens is usually very cheap. Some of those silver nose OMs?
The site also has some wonderful examples of UV images.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / September 19, 2007 CE, at 6:46 AM, Marten Beels wrote:
> Interesting. I know that I've seen UV photographs, but I seem to
> remember reading in the past that the obstacles to UV photography were
> greater then IR photography. A little further reading indicates that
> standard lenses are fine for shooting the "long-wave UV" part of
> near-UV, but most of the "short-wave UV" is blocked by common standard
> lenses.
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