On Apr 8, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Or a decent shot with an imperfect lens. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7147418 > > Two things here. > First: I'm training Grace to be a placekicker in the NFL. Note the > perfect form. Hand out for balance. Head down. She's a natural.
LOL ... funny. You're focused a little behind her in this photo. Her hand on the right is in focus but her face isn't. > Second: Shot this with the obviously defective DA* 16-50/2.8 . Looks > okay, doesn't it? And most shots will. Real world shooting doesn't > always reveal defects. But someday when shooting a nearly flat scene > wide open, one side of the shot will be a bit soft. The lens costs > far too much to tolerate that kind of performance. Sometimes it's > good to test. But only rarely:-). I shoot so much "almost flat" subject matter a lens defect like this should be apparent pretty quickly. Like this one: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/46b.htm All I can see from the un-processed exposure is that I was a little off from dead-on to the subject. Focus seems just fine. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
