New Photography Techniques Reveal More Than Meets The Eye

[JohnJ]

Looks like a new set of photography techniques will assist us in determining what is associated and what was added to those drool worthy discoveries.

 

Progressive Photonics

 

[Yoda]

Seems like a good way of detecting hidden repairs?  

I have a UV torch at home. Might be worth shining it onto some of my pieces and seeing what comes up. 

[caldigger]

You may be seeing many more people walking around the fossil shows looking like this! 

[FranzBernhard]

Nice, thanks for sharing!
It has long been known, that faded mollusc shell color patterns can be made visible with UV-light.

An old method is dipping the shells in a nearly boiling, diluted alkali silicate solution (Hoernes, 1856). Never tried this myself.

Franz Bernhard

[Coco]

It seems that another method is to soak them in concentrated bleach before passing them under the UV lamps, but I don’t know if in the long run it damages the shells or not. Method used by some scientists.

 

https://mnhn.academia.edu/JeanMichelPacaud

 

Coco