{"id":2009,"date":"2018-06-20T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:36:28","slug":"fun-with-photodoc-infrared-again-edition-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2018\/06\/fun-with-photodoc-infrared-again-edition-8","title":{"rendered":"Fun with PhotoDoc: Infrared Again (Edition 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since my last Fun with PhotoDoc post, so I wanted to share some progress I’ve been making with Reflected IR.\u00a0 You might remember from my last PhotoDoc post<\/a>, we purchased a modified UV-Vis-IR camera from MaxMax at the end of 2017.\u00a0 Our first two objects we (Ashleigh and I) examined and documented with the camera were a great learning experience, but didn’t exactly leave me with goosebumps.\u00a0 Still it was a good experience and we worked out the use of the various filters and the general IR workflow.
\nFast forward to April when the lab received not one but two books from UC in need of IR photography.\u00a0 The first was the Masters thesis of Ralph E Oesper from the Oesper History of Chemistry collection.\u00a0 The curator wished to exhibit several of the pages from the volume, but upon inspection Ashleigh (our conservator) was concerned that the purple text ink might be dye based, which is very light sensitive.<\/p>\n\n\t\t