If you take David's post above ...

"It makes my tabloid evening paper English so drab by comparison. Far East translations into English are hard enough to follow but when the words are rearranged by geeks we enter a wonderful new world of language possibilities."

and use Babelfish to translate into Japanese ....
"それは私のタブロイドの夕刊の英語を比較するとそうドラブにする。 英語への極東翻訳は十分に懸命に単語がマニアによって再配列されるとき私達入る言語可能性のすばらしく新しい世界に続くことであるが、"

and then use Babelfish to translate that Japanese back into English, you get this ....
"When English of the evening paper of my tabloid is compared, so it designates that as the drab. The Far Eastern translation to English when sufficiently eagerly word with the maniac re-being arranged us is to follow to the world where the language possibility of entering splendidly it is new, but."

Now you know how they do it


Andrew

The word "green" in greenlane, at least in my part of the world, generally doesn't mean that the lane is grass surfaced. Many are old stone roads that would be relatively unaffected by the passage of Challenger tanks never mind 4x4s.

Andrew

It's actually easier to generate a 100% crop. All you need to do is select 800x600 pixels from the full size photo, copy into a new image and save the file. Although I've never deliberately used a 50% crop, I think it would need an extra step - i.e. select 1600x1200 pixels from the full size photo and then resize to 800x600.


Andrew

It would be nice to see 100% crops of photos. I don't think you can really tell anything about the resolution of a lens with a resize of the full frame.


Andrew

I only have one other lens with which I can compare it. It is definitely sharper than my Sigma 135mm f3.5 mini-tele prime (which is not a keeper!!).


Cheers
Andrew

As I suggested the Pentax-M 75-150mm f4 as a lens that is cheap, sharp and fast(ish), it seems reasonable to offer a sample. I claim no artistic merit whatever for the following photo. It is one of many "holiday snaps" that I took in August last year. I vaguely recall taking it with the lens at 150mm (but I might be wrong).

This photo was taken from a headland at the northern side of Clachtoll beach in Sutherland.




This is a 100% crop ........



and so is this.




The lens was an Ebay purchase a year or two back. From memory, I think I paid £22.50 for it, so it definitely satisifies the "cheap" criterion Whether it satisfies the "sharp" and "fast" criteria is maybe not my call in this thread. I do know it (the lens) satisifies me and is a definite keeper.

Cheers
Andrew

The Pentax-M 75-150mm f4 is sharp and under £40. Nice lens.


Andrew

There's at least a couple of Firefox EXIF add-ons. All you need do is right-click on a photo displayed on a web page.


Andrew

I'm sure there was some sharpening. The previous shot was taken as a JPEG, so was sharpened in-camera by default.

This shot was taken as a RAW and exported from RawTherapee with no sharpening (i.e. switched off, as you can in RT). To make it a fair comparison, I sharpened using USM in PS7 at 100%,0.8,0 which should have been OK. I've had another go at the sharpening and used High Pass sharpening instead of USM. The sky noise is better, but there's still a jaggy or two - but only really noticeable if you blow up the screen image of the 100% crop.

The 100% crop was not over enlarged, it was taken as a selection of 800x600 pixels from the original full size image.

Any better?

Andrew

Same approximate location, handheld as previously. K200D with kit lens @ f11 around 30mm focal length. The only significant differences are that a lens hood was fitted, the photo was taken at f11 as a RAW and processed in RawTherapee rather than in-camera.




a 100% crop of the topright corner



I took the same shot with an old (probably mediocre too) Sigma 28mm mini-wide at the same aperture and it's definitely no better.

(ponder)

Maybe I should forget about lenses for the summer and just take some more photos. OTOH, if anyone has any similar photos taken at f11 with a 16-45mm ......

Andrew