Ben Rubinstein
Active member
Hi,
Does anyone know anything about shooting UV with a MFDB?
In the film days you loaded UV film, slapped a filter on the lens that only allowed UV light in and shot (longer exposures as regular or flash light is only partially UV). Or you used black lights and very very long exposures.
UV light shows up faded text far better than regular lighting so it could be a valuable tool for use in the project I'm putting together to photograph ancient documents and books.
How does it work these days?
Does anyone know anything about shooting UV with a MFDB?
In the film days you loaded UV film, slapped a filter on the lens that only allowed UV light in and shot (longer exposures as regular or flash light is only partially UV). Or you used black lights and very very long exposures.
UV light shows up faded text far better than regular lighting so it could be a valuable tool for use in the project I'm putting together to photograph ancient documents and books.
How does it work these days?