There is nothing wrong with your lens Brian, nor is it unsharp,
although it is not cheating to sharpen a digital image. What is wrong
is that the red channel is supersaturated/overexposed and has burned
out your detail. It is a common problem that sensors are over
sensitive to red. Taking pictures of red objects usually calls for
cutting back exposure to save the red and boosting exposure in the
dark areas later. If you do some judicious cut back of the red
channel in and some boost in green and blue the picture is saved. I
will attach a corrected jpeg to your copy of the message. If you open
it in your image processor you should be able to see the moisture on
the rose petals. It is a beautiful image. I really should mess with
a website.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hi all you Olympus users
>
> I have come to the conclusion that a good part of my
> dissatisfaction with the
> E-1 stems from the fact that the only DZ lens I have is the 14 -
> 45mm kit
> lens that came with the camera. It just does not deliver sharp
> images.
>
> Look at these two photographs of Ingrid Bergman; (rotated left one)
> resized
> to 1000 pixels wide (was height) with irfan view, saved at 85%.
>
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/
> recent5.htm
>
> I should get the 50mm macro and the 14-54. Sometime. When they are
> more affordable !!
>
> The story behind these two shots is like something from a Greek
> tragedy.
>
> I have an old friend - old in both senses of the word, now - who
> was in class
> with me at secondary school. An extremely talented guy. Or was.
>
> His wife is dying of cancer and has just a few weeks to live. He
> doesn't know
> exactly where she is (in a hospice somewhere in the same city), and
> he is
> now forbidden by law ( he has had a trespass order placed on him)
> to make
> any contact with her. Not that he was violent as far as I know -
> "just" a case
> of being severely alcoholic to the point that she couldn't stand it
> any more.
>
> I intend to send her a card, and he asked if I could send her a
> bunch of red
> roses, via me. I indicated they'd have a snow-ball's chance in hell
> of getting
> past the gate-keeper, but I would take some pics of red roses and
> include a
> couple of prints with the card, and hope they would get through.
> He never
> had the chance to say goodbye before the ambulance took her away. :-(
>
> There's more to the story than that, but that is the story behind
> the roses.
> Actually, I took more shots and these came from the second visit; I
> was so
> disappointed with the first set of shots.
>
> I can get sharper shots with the OM4Ti and any one of several Zuiko
> lenses,
> and Fuji Reala.
>
> Brian
>
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