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>Can anyone give me a ballpark figure what aperture/shutter speed to
>use for trying to pick up UV images using a Nikkor 50mm 1.4, KR64,
>and a 18A wratten filter under bright sunlight?
>I'm shooting insects to pick up UV reflective wing patterns. Anybody
>out there done remotely the same?
The lens has too many elements to pass much (if any) UV. Even if you could filter out most of the visible light to use the little UV that
might remain, the exposures would be impossible to use for shooting insects, unless they were totally immobile. There are UV Nikkors available for this kind of work, but the cost is high.
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