Shooting through plexiglass

<p>I working on building a few enclosures and was wondering if shooting through plexiglass will cause any problems. Does anyone have experience with how likely lens flair will be or anything along those lines? It is 1/2" plexi</p>

<p>Try to not light the enclosure directly, of course. It will flare. And also reflect. Scratches and hazing can be problematic, but maybe less so in the protected environment of a studio. If you get bored, try a few shots through it with a polarizer. The stress gradients become visible, and sure to be an interesting diversion.</p>

<p>The plexiglass will act like an optical element of very bad quality. Therefore, you should stop down several stops to limit the bad effects caused by this.</p>

<p>Shooting through 1/2" plexiglass is what folks do with shooting hockey images; except it is often scratched and has puck marks; blood; gore.:)<br>

Dirty Plexiglass or scratched ; It drops the contrast; it can effect an RF with non normal shooting. If it is warped one can get some distortion. It is what the older type contact lenses folks wore; ie PMMA; ie non-gas perm types. </p>

<p><br /><br />Here is a shot of a moving Hockey player shot through 1/2" Plexiglas; while wearing Plexiglas Contact lenses; using a Epson RD-1/S rangefinder; manually focusing. The lens is a 10.5cm F2.5 Nikkor at F4; a Leica Thread Mount lens from about 1955. <br /><br /><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/FLYER100.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/FLYER200.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/FLYER700CROP.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/FLYER700CROPCROP.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/FLYER700CROPCROPCROP.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Here is an example where the Plexiglas degraded an image:<br>

<br /> The purple blob/cloud above the player being escorted to the sin bin is some weirdness due to plexiglas and reflections. The bottom two corners are abit darker too. This was shot with an audiovox cellphone about 2004; the phones lens is about 1.5mm focal length; shutter speed 1/27 second. <br /><br />The cellphone was right on the plexiglas; and banned with player. One has some weird blurred corners. This was a sub VGA image type sensor; less than 1/4 VGA ie 240x320 in reality. It outputted an upsized image as a VGA that just made the image bigger. <br /><br />This is Jeff Szwez in the ECHL; today he is in the EIHL with the <a href="http:/www.belfastgiants.com/roster"><strong>Belfast Giants </strong>hockey team.<br /></a> <img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/ektar/hockey/tripods-547.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>To be safe; do some actual tests and see what works<br>

An autofocus camera of the old simple type can get faked off by glass/plexiglas too</p>

<p>I've shot a lot of good photos through plate glass in an office building. Like this one.</p><div></div>

<p>and this.</p><div></div>

<p>Dario,Glarefree Plexiglass Acrylic is available from all the major suppliers.A little more expensive than the regular acrylic but well worth it.Buy a small peice and test it.</p>

<p>This one went through the plexiglass too</p><div></div>

<p>This photographer was able to get around all the technical difficulties and create stunning work:</p>

<p>http://www.amazon.com/Window-Seat-Photography-Creative-Thinking/dp/0596100833</p>