I have one too. It's a wonderful lens at any price! FWIW, I also only paid about £20 on Ebay.

Andrew

If you click on each photo, you get a 100% view. Have a close look at the area around the dog's eye. They look identical to me - so must have been taken at the same instant. Whether there is enough difference in viewpoint for them to have been taken by cameras side by side is moot - possibly.

The EXIF is intact on the full size versions.

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There is an update to the article this morning. It says that the dogs (both) just stayed very still - and that was a fluke. If I interpret it correctly, it also says that the shutters of the two cameras were fired separately, not simultaneously.

Curiouser and curiouser .........

Andrew




Andrew

Can anyone explain to me how a photographer can take a shot of a living, breathing dog, swap cameras and then take another from exactly the same location, without the dog having moved a hair?

Thoughts? Is this a spoof?

Andrew

I don't know much about this - but most of the "high key" images that I've seen are light toned subjects against a light toned background. These photos seem to be burnt out images against a burnt out background, which isn't really the same thing.

I side with Pentaxophile.

Andrew

I've usually had them printed on lustre paper - looks great to me. I agree that you should use their colour profiles, pre-scale your images and select the "pro" option.

kh1234567890 - spray mount, eh? Rather you then me. I've destroyed a few prints using that - never again. I'm way too ham-fisted to spray mount reliably.

Andrew

DSColourlabs have always worked well for me. I've had a lot of 16"x12" prints from them for camera club competitions. They are outstandingly cheap and very good.

Andrew

In Irfanview, you have the option of clicking on one of three radio buttons next to where it says "Units", which selects the measurement in use. Just click on the the left-most one for measurements in pixels.

Andrew

I cannot answer that, as I didn't have LR4. You can download the 30 day trial of LR5 and find out whether the improvement is enough for you.

Previously, I used Photoshop Elements 8 and a number of plug-ins - Grant's tools, PTLens and Colormancer noise reduction, to do stuff that Elements either didn't do or didn't do so well.

I must say I am very impressed with LR5.

Andrew

The LR 5.2 CA tick box works startlingly well. Before I bought LR 5.2, I had been used to dealing with CA using a PTLens plugin - but LR does the job much more easily and seemingly more effectively too.

Andrew

Done