[LRflex] Re: Intro - yab
- From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:45:50 -0700
At 29/07/2007, you wrote:
Everyone,
Before adding to the thread Xavier Bille started
on the 24 Elmarit, I probably should have
introduced myself. My name is Bill Holtz; yab,
yet another Bill. I am from St Louis Mo and
have belonged to this forum for some time. I
seldom post but I really enjoy the international
flavor of this forum and I get inspiration from
the posted photos; you guys do good work.
Some time back I contacted David Young and asked
him for info on a Nikon scanner he had mention
in a post. He kindly replied and requested I
show some results. I did get the scanner and I
thank David very much for the information and
his encouragement. I am still on a learning
curve as my results will show, but the scanner
was just what I was looking for. Then when I
replied to Xavierâ??s post on the 24 Elmarit, he
too requested that I post examples of what I was
getting at. So, I have placed a couple of
albums on my web site www.williamholtz.com in
reply. You will note that my site is intended
only to share photos between family and
friends. I am a bit more amateur than most of
you; read that to mean you wonâ??t confuse my
bird shots with those from Doug Herr.
Xavier, as added explanation, I realized
problems using the 24 Elmarit on my 20D when I
tried to make a stitched pano (I failed
miserably). When selecting tie points at full
resolution, features on the edge of one frame
would be toward the center of the adjacent
frame. The problem was obvious. What I called
CA is probably not Chromatic Aberration inherent
in the 24 Elmarit but, as Keith Longmore
explains very well, induced by using a wide
angle lens not designed for a digital sensor. I
show two examples of this in the first two rows
of the album. In spite of this I do still use
the 24 on my 20D as shown in the bottom three
rows. It is the widest lens I have, it is good
for street photos (I think its performance is
better in the close range), and I use it for
snap shots through a window of a moving vehicle
(where optical quality is not important).
Bill
G'Mornin', Bill~
Do we call you "YaB", or "Uncle Bill"??? ;-)
Glad your happy with the Nikon Scanner ...seems to be doing the job for you!
I'm short on time, but took a quick run through
your shots ... they're very good!
You said:
I am a bit more amateur than most of you...
NEVER apologize! Your work is very, very
good. Mine was, perhaps, not so good, when I
first started hanging around on internet photo
forums, back in 1994. But, by showing my
shots, listening to others (and disregarding a
few cranks), I have managed to grow in my
photography, and am, today, a much better
shooter. There are many here who are better than
you or I, and we can all learn from them. That
is the beauty of a forum such as this one!
From my quick look, and the small image sizes
offered, I see little wrong with the 24 Elmarit
on the 20D. (I'll look more closely when I'm back, in a week.
Certainly, I've not used the 24, but I do have
Doug's old 21SA, and it worked fine on the
DMR. I admit, however, to now using the 10~22mm
Canon AF lens on the 30D for W/A work.
Cheers!
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