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Discovery made using my Full Spectrum camera!

Started Jun 23, 2021 | Discussions
MacM545 Contributing Member • Posts: 783
Discovery made using my Full Spectrum camera!
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I used a full spectrum camera to, in a sense, blend various layers of spectrum in artistic ways! For example, the flower was illuminated using a smartphone that gave off about one hundred percent visible light, which is what the camera registered, but also the camera rendered the background, which was moonlit! This can be thought of, in a sense, as painting using various dimensions, an interaction with what is regularly seen and what is invisible to human eyes!

How many of us knew about such a discovery?

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SterlingBjorndahl Senior Member • Posts: 2,638
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That's a very interesting discovery and certainly triggers the imagination. One will have to deal with the different focal points of different wavelengths in areas of the image that we want to be sharp - though using small apertures could help a lot with that. In your example that's not a problem for the image since there's already good subject isolation and the subject is uniformly lit.

It makes me imagine that one could also take a series of captures of a scene with different lighting and perhaps filters and then stack them in (e.g.) Photoshop and use layer masks to choose the best parts of each shot to compose the final image. (Sort of like how one can make a colour image by stacking three B&W images taken with red, green, and blue filters). I have no practical scene in mind for that yet, but  your discovery has got me thinking.

THANKS!!

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Wildbegonia Senior Member • Posts: 1,043
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Very interesting, I like the end result even if the process to me, and for now, sounds like an experiment on quantum mechanics 😉.

Nice sharing! Thank you so much.

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OP MacM545 Contributing Member • Posts: 783
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Thanks! Great way to understand it is also by trying it yourself- experience

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OP MacM545 Contributing Member • Posts: 783
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It's been interesting to me why the RGB filter stacking used for astro is rarely if ever used for macro, especially because of the extra level of diffraction for ever increasing magnifications!

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