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Subject: Re: [OM] Reflections on multi-coating reflections - was Re: Flatirons and OM's
From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:46:39 +0000
>He may want to use the lens for UV photography, while not paying $$$ for 
>Nikon's special lens.
>

I don't think that it would very well. glass filters out UV all by itself.

>Personally, I think the best lens for UV photography is a pinhole camera.  
>Why spend money on special optics when air is free?
>

Pinholes are used in lots of scientific imaging for spectra outside normal 
human vision and in harsh environments where glass would not work.

-- 
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
                -- George Bernard Shaw


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