Thanks for those examples, Moose. I’ll have to wait until this evening to look
at your tests – once I’m on my big screen. It’s 0620 here and I’m checking
emails on my MacBook.
Chris
> On 21 Jun 17, at 22:13, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/2017 9:56 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>> Thanks, Piers, but I’m happy with the idea of adjusting the look of a
>> picture by its softness. It was more the quality of the Velvet that I
>> wanted to check with anyone who might have used it.
>>
>> I’m still vacillating, but I’m rather tempted.
>
> The sunset and the two cloud images here are LB Velvet @ f1.6
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20640
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20640>>
>
> A Marnie Bucket unprocessed but for WB from a gray card and exposure.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Lenses/LB%20Velvet%20&%20OMZ50-14/VelvetBucket.htm
>
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Lenses/LB%20Velvet%20&%20OMZ50-14/VelvetBucket.htm>>
>
> These are some tests I recently ran for myself. LensBaby Velvet 56 and early,
> silvernose OMZ 50/1.4, at apertures from wide open to f8.0.
>
> A lot of useful stuff for evaluating the look of the lenses, I think, a wide
> range of colors, carefully focused on the swizzle stick in the Martini glass,
> using image magnification, then background at various distances, with
> brightness behind.
>
> Softness vs. DoF is interesting. Velvet @ f8 has the foreground objects about
> as sharp as 50/1.4 @f4, but DoF is very different. Lots o Bokeh , and with
> bright spots.
>
> Not ACR, or any other processing. FastStone Raw conversion with downsizing in
> one batch step.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Lenses/LB%20Velvet%20&%20OMZ50-14/Velvet&OMZ.htm
>
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Lenses/LB%20Velvet%20&%20OMZ50-14/Velvet&OMZ.htm>>
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