Shouldn't that be one person was right and everyone else
was wrong

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As the owner of a 16 oz. Stanley Hammer and a 16 oz. Vaughn Hammer
I much prefer the hold and balance of the Vaughn Hammer although
I wish I had a 24oz. Estwing Hammer.... like the pro's have.

I must confess that I rarely knock any nails in I just
like holding a hammer

My wife on the other hand is quite happy with the
Junior Plumbers Outfit she bought and has no
desire to ever own a hammer

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I hate HDR, but I've often wondered how it works with an
output of 8 bits. If it was any better it wouldn't show up
on the monitor anyway.

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Darktable seems different to Adobe PS. In order to access
all the filters they seem to require RGB and don't recommend other
modes for photography.

http://www.graphics.com/article-old/photoshop-cs6-fundamentals-color-modes

Display monitors are normally 8 bit as well.

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Pixel peeping is fairly pointless. I had a Minolta F300
5MP which if you pixel peep it looks a lot better than
anything Pentax make I regularly used to use it
at 1:1

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Ricoh make Industrial Cameras and CCTV so the macro is
probably for them. They already have 50mm macros for
amateur use and they aren't as poplular as the 100mm's.

Any Editor..... Photoshop ..... Zoner etc.

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Don't most people use RGB in the Editor which restricts them
to 256 steps per channel anyway.

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That's very unkind comparing me to Generator. Possibly what happened to
him should happen to you!

As for the other clown DanielH I can only quote Smeggy's
Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

I first noticed Telephoto Compression which you all claim
doesn't exist at the age of 5 when I first saw a cricket
match on TV.... the stumps looked on top of one another
and not 22 yards apart. Looked OK from the side.

Estate Agents long ago realised that by using WA lenses
they could make rooms look bigger.

There isn't a problem when one person out of a hundred is
wrong, but there is a serious problem when the other 99
are.

I think it's time to stop this thread, I'm sick of all the personal
attacks on this forum which started with Chris.

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Tony you can't magnify one photo and compare it to another
unmagnified. All the tests I've seen are invalidated and
nothing more than an illusion.

Now for some nice bedtime reading, which actually used proper
controls/procedures.

http://www.journalofvision.org/content/12/5/8.full

I'm sure you'll want to read it all and keep a PDF
but for a quick example look at fig. 8 The Red Bed.

The top row taken from the same position with different focal
lengths shows quite clearly that the perspective does change
with focal length. Amongst other things the near corner
of the bed sinks lower in each shot.

The bottom row taken with a fixed lens and moved on a dolly
for each shot shows that perspective just moves as you would
expect. Quite obvious that it's the same lens.

"Even Leonardo da Vinci described perceptual distortions when paintings were not viewed from the correct distance and advised painters of realistic scenes to make sure the viewer could view near the COP."
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