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It's not difficult to have what's called a "full-spectrum conversion" done on a typical digital camera body. Usually it's just a matter of pulling the filter/h
by michrassena 9y ago
It's not difficult to have what's called a "full-spectrum conversion" done on a typical digital camera body. Usually it's just a matter of pulling the filter/hot mirror from the sensor. Then appropriate filters are chosen to screw into the lens which block visible light but allow infrared or UV. UV is trickier because glass blocks most UV already, and modern coated lens block it almost completely. Lenses which pass UV and are corrected to focus visible light and UV to the same point are eye-wateringly expensive. Example here: https://www.jenoptik-inc.com/product/uv-vis-105mm-slr-uv-vis-ir-60mm-apo-macro-lenses/ https://www.jenoptik-inc.com/product/uv-vis-105mm-slr-uv-vis...
Here's a pretty good guide to conversions and lens options (some of which are inexpensive)
http://www.savazzi.net/photography/uv.htm http://www.savazzi.net/photography/uv.htm
And a few examples down this page of flowers in UV (said to correlate with how bees see flowers and know where to land for pollen)
https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-ultraviolet-wratten-18A.html https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-ultraviolet-wratten-18A.h...