The camera now has a "lens optimisation" capability which removes radial aberration which causes a colour shift over the frame. On the subjects I have shot today I can't see any magenta fringing at all.
The shots taken so far are incredibly sharp and beat the 1Ds I rented for sharpness, though I have acquired better lenses since that test on which I only used rented lenses which I didn't trust. It seems to me that the resolution is high enough to represent the texture of vegetation properly, making landscape work look acceptable.
However, the camera body really feels pretty nasty and the noise that the shutter makes can be heard 50 meters away (I'm probably exaggerating here). I'm getting over an initial dislike of the aesthetics of this camera and trying to see its design as some kind of post-modern, intentionally ironic statement against the values of over-designed consumerism... :-) But... 35mm quality on digital is worth the compromise involved I think. I guess the image quality is close to my scanned Mamiya 645 transparencies, but with the obvious digital differences.
Quite unhappy with the dust Kodak have pre-installed on the sensor... or maybe I put it there straight away, its not something I had to worry about ever before. I guess it could have been me.
Not sure yet about noise at higher ISO's, particularly at low light levels, much experimentation is needed I think to work out what the tradeoffs are.
On 22 May 2004, at 10:55, Mark Sykes wrote:
Martin...
Another question relating to the 14c. Are we Canon users able to attach
optics such as the 24mm T/S lens or does the protruding battery pack prevent
this?
Regards -- Mark M Sykes
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