RE: Any experience with Coolpix 950 for UV photography?

["Colin McLaughlan" <colinm@xxxxxxxx>]

I have used by the Olympus E10 and the Olympus C2000z for IR Photography.
The C2000z uses the same CCD as the 950.  You get a strange green tining on
the foliage with these shots and it is quite unusual so I held onto the
C2000z when I upgraded to the E-10.  So while not truely black and white
they do have a very unique look to them.

You can see some of my C2000z IR pictures here:
http://24.234.70.244/ir_photo.htm

I tried my hand at trying to recreate the look of EIR color film by
combining both IR shots and color shots from my E-10.  You can see those
results here:
http://photos.lycos.com/s.asp?r=vjmadn44v3a13bod0188nc11hc_155953

In both cases I was using a Hoya R72 filter.

Regards,

Colin McLaughlan
colinm@xxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-infrared@xxxxx [mailto:owner-infrared@xxxxx]On Behalf Of
James Wooten
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:57 AM
To: infrared@xxxxx
Subject: Re: Any experience with Coolpix 950 for UV photography?



- --- Timothy Stark <sword7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello folks:
>
> I have my experience with infrared photography with my new Nikon Coolpix
>950 digicam.
> It was successful...  I read some articles about infrared on web site
>but notice that ultraviolet photography.  I was looking for UV images
>(samples) that Coolpix 950 takes but can't find them.

I have used the Nikon 990 and 950 with the B&W 403 to try to shot UV
photos of flowers.  These pictures were taken outside in the sun.  The
images looked just like my IR images.  The problem is that the filter also
allows IR light to pass and the 950 is very sensitive to the IR.  My
cameras have the internal IR blocking filters removed so that may have
some effect.  Another problem is that the front lense on the camera is a
fairly good UV blocking filter.  It might not hurt to replace this filter
before trying UV.  In a studio/lab where the IR light is blocked and UV
provided, it might give better results.  Overall the experiment didn't
work.

James





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