UV? again 
June 21, 2014
I am interested in UV photography but it costs a fortune. However, I was thinking about the cost of UV pass filters (about £300 ish) and deciding that I would stick to playing with IR when I had a thought. What if I take an image twice, once with a UV filter once without, and then difference the images. That is fine but modern lenses block UV and the high quartz lenses that don't cost around £10000. Then someone told me that old Russian Bloc lenses don't block UV very well. So I bought an old Soligor 35mm f3.5 manual iris lens for £30, much more interesting. These images are with that, the registration problems are due to the Polaroid UV filter not being very optically flat, I have a better Nikon one but didn't realise that this one was poor until too late.
 
UV difference on two Welsh Poppy images  Nikon D600
UV difference on two Welsh Poppy images
 
UV difference on two images of white Sweet Williams, both B&W as there is no colour information in the UV image.  Nikon D600
UV difference on two images of white Sweet Williams, both B&W as there is no colour information in the UV image.
 
UV difference on two images of white Sweet Williams, one image B&W so the luminance channel is affected underneath the colour channel  Nikon D600
UV difference on two images of white Sweet Williams, one image B&W so the luminance channel is affected underneath the colour channel
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