Are we looking at the same photos? I show the red channel on the single
rose image to be slightly underexposed and the red channel on the
multiple rose image to be almost a stop underexposed. Nothing blown
anywhere. I even looked at the historgrams under two separate apps just
to be sure. Nada.
Chuck Norcutt
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> 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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