Saw these filters and just thought id ask...

[Bitter Jeweler]

Why are you such an ass?

We have once and for all identified the ass. And it is Bitter Jeweler. Why does the bitter one call sobolik an ass? because of the following

Let this be a lesson for the beginners on this forum. The arrogant self important argumentative lens caps (I'm being restrained) are not here to read, understand or interact responsibly.

"Did you even read it? You even highlighted the relevant part in red..."

O|||||||O;2134863 Um, had you went to the link you would notice the the author highlighted in red not me. Why don't you do us all a favor a just duct tape the accusatory mouth shut. Oh, wait you will simply make your antagonistic accusations with the key board. Oh. well duct tape the mouth anyway.

Thats better.

 

[Blitz55]

What happened to my thread?

*Puts out the flames*

Haha, just kidding.
Woke up and was surprised this was on its third page of posts already.

 

[Overread36]

As a bonus of the flames though most of us now know of the existence of UV light photography as something to consider having a go at if it takes one fancy

 

[Josh66]

As a bonus of the flames though most of us now know of the existence of UV light photography as something to consider having a go at if it takes one fancy

That's something I've been interested in for a while (which, I guess, is why I immediately knew what the author sobo quoted was talking about).

With the UV pass filter, I think most dSLRs should be able to get a UV image, with a sufficiently long exposure time. Basically the same as slapping an IR filter on your lens.

For 'normal' exposure times, you would need quartz lenses... Which are ****ing expensive.

All of the glass in the lens, the filter on the sensor, the sensitivity of the sensor, etc, all work against you for UV photography.

I think it's still worth looking into though. Google UV photography images, or something to that effect - you can make some pretty cool photos with UV light.

 

[Overread36]

The idea of working with different bands of lighting is something that I think would be fascinating to combine with nature studies because of all the different species having different visual ranges. It would be great to slip into the ability to take a photo of what a different animal sees the world and its colours/shades as.

 

[Josh66]

One day, I think we'll be able to dial in the spectrum of light we wish to shoot in on our cameras... Kinda like changing the WB.

That would be pretty cool.

 

[Overread36]

Might take a very long time for something like that to hit the market - though depends how things advance in the photographic world. I recall reading of liquid lenses and all manner of other ideas in the works that will change everything around.

As you've said and shown the lenses are also a limiting factor and that might be the major weaker point for such a development because that tech tends to advance slower and because of the more limited market for such a feature it might not get as much research attention.