[filmscanners] RE: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

> From: Robert55
>
> From time to time I find a picture of some very boring pink
> flowers, which I
> suppose I photographed because they were interesting blue flowers. Someone
> who has more knowledge of flowers than I have (I don't know whether we are
> talking about the same flowers) said this was because these flowers absorb
> (don't reflect) UV light. If I understand this correctly this is somewhat
> like using an UV-filter to eliminate blue haze in high mountains. It would
> be interesting to know what effect (if any) a UV-filter has on a digital
> camera

I've heard that what upsets the photography of some flowers is that they
reflect a lot of infrared, which is picked up as red by some films or
sensors. (Bees apparently see this range of color.) That's why the Minolta
DiMage 7i camera added an IR filter--I guess some DiMage 7 owners
complained.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

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