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Ultraviolet Photography: lighting

This post is all about lamps for UV photography. Studio Photography. UV Black light tubes If you work in a studio you will probably need just 2 UV fluorescent tubes. They are very cheap and you can mount them on any fixture for the normal visible light fluorescent tubes. Choose fixtures whose materials are not

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Scientific Art Examination

Radiography for Art

I don’t have radiography equipment. The x-ray tube is heavy and doesn’t fit into my lightweight-low-cost-Ryanair-approved luggage plan I adopted for my art examination service. And it would be a lot of regulation issues to transport and operate an X-ray tube in a number of different countries. Therefore, if the art to be examined could benefit from

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Postage stamps: Technical Photography

As a kid, I used to collect stamps. Cleaning up my place I just found my little collection and I thought to give it a quick Technical Photography glance. Postage stamps are a form of art, no doubt about it. I recall how much I was fascinated by those little images. Technical examination of postage

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Scientific Art Examination

Auto Focus USB Microscope

I just tested a new USB microscope. It’s in the range of the other affordable USB microscopes, under $100. You can find it on eBay searching “autofocus USB microscope”.Following my insights on this tool.   Autofocus and 3-feet configuration Autofocus. This is the reason I tested this USB microscope.  Indeed, it’s really uncomfortable to focus the other

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Amedeo Modigliani. Technical Art Examination.

There isn’t that much literature on technical examination of Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings. Last year I worked on a drawing attributed to Modigliani and I could find few references. The most important study is the one accomplished in the occasion of a rare Modigliani exhibition held in Paris in 1981 [1]. It compares Multispectral images of the paintings gathered for

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