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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: user on September 02, 2008, 05:58:46 am

Title: glass alternatives
Post by: user on September 02, 2008, 05:58:46 am

hello

is there any glass alternative that will have no reflections, no distortion and maybe magnify?

plexiglass maybe? does it have better qualities for shooting?

thanks

Title: glass alternatives
Post by: Larry Berman on September 02, 2008, 06:10:58 am

Shooting what?
Tru-View Museum Glass (http://www.tru-vue.com/Tru-Vue/Products/33/) probably has the best anti reflection properties.

The best way to photograph artwork is to take the glass off first.

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is there any glass alternative that will have no reflections, no distortion and maybe magnify?
plexiglass maybe? does it have better qualities for shooting?

Title: glass alternatives
Post by: Er1kksen on September 04, 2008, 07:08:42 pm

I assume he means glass for lensmaking.

A few compact cameras have been made using lenses with ceramic elements, rather than glass, which apparently can be managed into different shapes, be thinner, and is more scratch resistant. As far as I know, hoever, it's still more expensive, or at least nobody has a setup for make mass quantities of lens elements from it and can't be bothered to invest.

Someday in the future, I'm interested in the possibility of lens elements made of artificial diamond, which is steadily becoming cheaper to make. Not cheap yet, but some predict it will replace silicon for circuitry, and when we can make enough to put cheap diamond circuits in everyone's consumer electronics, we can make enough to put into lenses at not too much greater cost. Given the orderly atomic structure of diamond, as opposed to more disorderly structure of glass, I'm sure it can be optically excellent.

Title: glass alternatives
Post by: user on September 05, 2008, 01:03:10 am

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I assume he means glass for lensmaking

no I mean glass to shoot through, thanks anyway

I am interested in this tru-vue, but it doesn;t seem to come in different thickness

is any kind of plexiglass good as well? I need it thick

Title: glass alternatives
Post by: user on September 22, 2008, 01:45:32 pm

Tru-View Museum Glass must be definately awesome, but it is so expensive

is there a cheap alternative, cretainly anti-static, anti-reflective, contrast increasing, light permitting, but without UV protection? (it's useless for photoshooting)

also, I need it in a small size (8x12 inches), not the big ones that Museum Glass is offered

thanks