M8 & UV shooting

[ynp]

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I was demoed the new Ultraviolet Broncolor strobes recently, by a dealer, I was hookes and now I am researching my options. I have some experience with Ultraviolet and IR, mostly with film. Several years ago I had access to a Russian Quartz lens in PL mount and we adapted the lens to a SONY digicam, so I know some basics about the UV digital workflow.

 

I made a search on the LUF and found some interesting threads and I now think that my M8 can be used not only for IR, so my M8 as a UV camera does not look impossible.

 

I have several questions:

 

1) Am I right that the M8 can be used to take the UV pictures without any additional work on the sensor? If not, where I can modify the sensor?

 

2) Am I right that the lenses from Fifties can be used with filters and they are better for UV work? What would be your choice among the old lenses?

 

3) What Quartz lense in the M mount or any other mount (to be used with adapters) would you recommend? I know that Jenoptik manufacture a UV lense (saw it at Photokina-2008), is there anything cheaper available?

http://www.coastalopt.com/mmapomacro.html

 

Thank you all,

Yevgeny

Russia

[jaapv]

Yes - I have done so. You do not need to modify your M8. The Summarit 1.5 50 and the Jupiter are recommended lenses. On GetDPI you will find Vivek. He is one of the experts on the subject. You will need a B&W 403 filter. That also passes a band of IR, which makes for a most interesting effect. If you only want UV light you will need to stack it with a B&W 489 filter, to block the IR. There are also specialized UV pass filters, but those are expensive and not mounted, as they are meant for astronomy.

[ynp]

Dear Jaap,

 

Thank you for your recommendations and advice. You are always here with your deep knowledge and vast experience :)

 

Do you know any Quartz lenses in the M mount available?

 

Thanks,

Yevgeny