UV-photography

["Christoph Held" <Held@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I'm new to this list and before having contributed anything valuable 
here I have to apologize for a slightly off-topic question <sigh>. 
But in fact Willem-Jan has directed my attention towards this list 
and encouraged me to ask my stupid questions. So here is it:

I have access to a UV-Nikkor plus body (FG-20) which I plan to use to
record UV reflection patterns on butterfly wings, this is what I say
officially to get hold of the lens in the first place, but let's see..
My question is twofold: a message on WJMs homepage (from this 
list?) suggests to stay away from Kodak films and choose Fuji RTP, a 
tungsten balanced film instead. This film happens to be extremely 
rare where I live, however I can get the Kodak EPY, which should be 
tungsten balanced as well, as I understand it.

Any comments? The second question: metering. The metering system of
the F4, although not designed for measuring UV seems to give reliable
results, however F3 and F5 don't. What about the FG-20 body? Are there
alternatives such as hand held meters, but probably not designed for
UV use either, in addition to the difficulties I would expect
preventing stray light to enter from elsewhere not through the filter.

Hoping that there are some UV specialists around..  I'll introduce 
myself in a couple of days, if you find it interesting.

Thanks a lot in advance


Christoph Held
Fakultaet Biologie
Abt. Systematik der Tiere
Universitaet Bielefeld
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
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