Category Archives: Ultraviolet Illuminators

I just posted a new whitepaper with a short primer on UV Fluorescence Photography and a diy 18W, 3-wavelength, professional-grade lamp.

The figure above shows pictures of Hackmanite from Bancroft, Ontario, Canada taken using this diy lamp: a) White light photograph; b) reflected near-UV with Baader-U and long-wave illumination; c) fluorescence with wideband (LW, MW and SW) excitation; d) long-wave UV excitation; e) fluorescence with mid-wave UV excitation; f) fluorescence with short-wave UV excitation.

The whitepaper is available at: http://uvirimaging.c…ce-photography/

Today I received an UltraFire WF-502B UV flashlight advertised as emitting at 365 nm.  I was wondering how to tell if it really does, especially since vendors commonly list it as emitting 365-400 nm.

Well, I was in Canada last week, and had $25 Canadian left over in my wallet, so I tried this flashlight and compared it to the fluorescence produced by an Inova X5MT-UVT 400 nm flashlight.  Much to my surprise, the 365 nm UltraFire caused fluorescence that did not show up at all under the Inova 395 nm flashlight. Continue reading→