Post #1925839
2026-05-02 18:15 UTC
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@krunchyrice@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 18:35
@alpacamale @leaverou In the right sunlight you can see most of these colors (Never seen one this vibrant). But I'd imagine a camera has the range to pick a lot of it up since the visible spectrum is the typical target.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-05-02 20:02
@alpacamale @leaverou No, because the camera sensors, especially decent ones have a colour filter array to suit both typical RGB displays and the human eye response. Just out of band IR or UV will create false RGB, some phone cameras will show white or blue for near IR (point TV remote at it) and a UV fly trap will look a quite different colour on phone than by naked eye. The displays typically have narrow R, G & B at peaks of human response and good camera filters use R, G & B curves.
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-05-02 20:33
@alpacamale @leaverou General camera sensors are designed to respond in the same way human perception does, thus producing what we consider to be natural photographs.
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@devnull@mamot.fr 2026-05-02 21:15
@alpacamale Cameras sensors work in black & white and have colour filters in front of it. The exact filter layout varies depending on exact sensor types/brands (there's more than one type of filter), unless filter is removed, they all filter out infrared and ultraviolet. So you can't "see" ultra-violet by just editing RAW. Nor printers and screen can render it. One might amplify visible colors and add fake colours, such as violet (instead of UV, which can't be seen by humans anyway) @leaverou