[jhb] Re: Photography

  • From: Gerry Winskill <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:41:26 +0100

I agree on the price!
Just from Jessops, a couple of filters came to 20% of what I'd spent on a decent lens; it's a ludicrous ripoff!
I use a UV mainly to protect the lens. The Circular Polariser does make a big difference to making whispy clouds visible.
My current problem is trying to dip my toes in the water with RAW and Photoelements; the latter having been sitting on my machine for two years. Am I the only one who finds P.E.'s instructions total gibberish? That's apart from the slightly insulting fact that most of it seems to be devoted to how to move shots from the camera and organise them. 

Only 0740 and already in GOM mode!

Gerry Winskill

bones wrote:
I'd agree with Alex. Avoid f2.8 with the filter on even though this may mean operating on Aperture Priority. I've not bought any filters for the D80 - not a single one - and this is a deliberate decision. The filters for the Hasselblad cost a packet - you could buy a decent compact digital for less. bones 

    -----Original Message-----
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    *On Behalf Of *Alex Barrett
    *Sent:* 21 August 2007 23:16
    *To:* jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    *Subject:* [jhb] Re: Photography

    Gerry!

    Yes indeed it does work that way on occasion. I bought myself a
    new set of polarising filters in Hong Kong a few weeks ago (£119
    in Jessops, £30 in HK!!) and it came with a instruction card on
    vignetting.

    "Optical Vignetting can be cured by stopping down the lens between
    2 and 3 stops. Polarising filters should not be used with the
    camera in automatic modes as this is when Vignetting is at its
    most likely"

    You can tell its a translation from Chinese <G>

    I have found it helps, or perhaps its just my bad manual settings
    that offsets it with other problems!


    By the way, if anyone has a Canon camera I have a good set of
    lenses for sale that I'd like to get rid of - I'm now totally on
    Nikon.

    Alex




    It gives the same advice I was taught when I decided

    Gerry Winskill wrote:


    I splashed out on a new Tamron f2.8 17-50, last week. Doing some
    test shots to day, I was dismayed to find that, at the 2.8 I was
    trying, I was getting significant vignetting. Having collected my
    wits, I removed the new Circular Polariser I'd al;so been trying.
    The problem disappeared. I haven't had this with the earlier
    polariser I've used, on a 52mm diameter lens; does this go with
    increasing the lens / polariser diameter?

    Gerry Winskill

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