Saturday, March 10, 2018

My progress on a UV led photography setup

I thought I'd post an update. It looks as though my LED burned out. So no more photos using that setup, for some time. Going to have to get another one and start over. I'm trying to go for a UV light so that I can create some compelling photos of plants! This time I ordered a heat sink so we'll see. But it seems to work just as well as a far more expensive setup would work using a traditional UV filter that one might use to screw in front of a camera. I need the wavelength of light to be small, below 700nm, so it'll work better than a traditional blacklight. It would be seriously interesting to use this setup for ghost hunting, or simply for anomalous or unexplained phenomena, whether or not it exists. I have thought to myself about making a different setup in the future, which could peer even further into the UV spectrum, but that'd require modifying a consumer camera to a certain extent, to be of complete use, or to be able to see UV light in all of it's beauty. Then, once I've done that, maybe I could move on to having an Infrared lamp? I wish I had a camera that could properly map each spectrum (UV, Visible, and Infrared) into the RGB (Red, Green, & Blue) spectrum, just as a thermal vision camera does! I really probably have to hurry with the UVIVF aspect of things, so that I don't lose any more followers on Flickr!

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