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Subject: [OM] Re: Tamron SP 17mm F3.5
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:24:55 -0500
Purpilication, eh?  Whatever, still looks mighty fine to me.

Chuck Norcutt

Winsor Crosby wrote:

> I think there is a common confusion about chromatic aberration.
> 
> There is some purple fringing at the edges of the bright light at the  
> end of the building that is a sensor artifact, not a lens artifact.  
> Sensors, like film, have trouble handling black and white edges  
> especially when the light is bright. The difference from film is that  
> when the light spills over the edge it takes on a purple bloom with a  
> digital sensor. The edge looks eaten away on film and even more, I  
> think, with the sensor. Much of it can be corrected though.
> 
> Chromatic aberration is caused by the inability of the lens to bring  
> all the colors in white light to focus at the same point. Usually you  
> would see it also in bright areas, but usually characterized by a  
> colored edge on one side and a different color on the opposite edge.  
> That does not seem to be present in this image.
> 
> 
> 
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Michael Wong wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear all,
>>I have gotten a Tamron SP 17mm F3.5 & found its' chromatic  
>>aberration is
>>serious.
>>http://palmboy.palmcyber.net/gallery/albums/album125/IMG877.jpg
>>
>>Is there any comment for this lens?
> 
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