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Subject: [OM] Re: OM 180/2.8 bokeh praised at RFF
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:48:45 +0000
Hell, it took me five minutes to find out where it was. That ain't no big deal. 
PWP fixes that in an instant. Anyway, it's no more a problem or distraction 
than if there were a new freckle on Heidi Klum's butt.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

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From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> C.H.Ling wrote:
> > To me, the result is totally unacceptable, the thickness of "gap" is 
> > irregular. 
> Easy there, pardner. If you want perfection, you need another lens or to 
> do some pixel level work. In the context of even a very large print, any 
> person who had never seen the CA would never see anything wrong. It just 
> looks like the chrome piece isn't evenly in the body aperture on a cab. 
> Cabs in HK are all undamaged? The shadow and bright reflection on the 
> chrome piece suggest it may actually have been pulled out and slightly 
> bent, making a thicker shadow where it has pulled slightly away from the 
> body quite natural. Who can tell? There is also a subtle increase in the 
> shadows within the Toyota logo that I  don't think even a gallery goer - 
> without the original for comparison - would ever notice.
> 
> In the context of an art print, I would do something more careful and 
> detailed. In this one, I was just trying something that would handle the 
> CA in a way that made it a non-issue in the context of the subject 
> without any detail work.
> 
> > There is no different in term of overall quality, 
> A matter of opinion, and it's your image, so you win by definition. 
> Nevertheless, to my taste, something that looks like shadow is, while 
> not perfect, better that an obviously wrong color.
> 
> > I would just save the time of such manual touch up. 
> This wasn't manual, I never touched a brush, clone, eraser or other 
> detail tool. If I had, you may be sure the shadow would have been of 
> even width.
> 
> > This is just an example, I think the 
> > most popular problem people seen is color fringe on the leaves with white 
> > sky as background just like the Canon 24-120 IS L photo in dpreview. 
> I agree that that is where it is most often an obvious problem, but 
> that's not what you presented. I'm pretty pragmatic, and suit my work to 
> the specific problem and context at hand. The context here is a very 
> small part of a very complex image.
> 
> > How long you think it will take to correct such photo? 
> Not much longer than your sample, the way I did it. How it would look is 
> something, on the other hand, I don't know without trying. Probably not 
> very good.
> 
> > I perfer to get a lens like the DZ7-14 which is free from this problem.
> >   
> I certainly agree!
> 
> Moose
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