Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Really? I've never seen this uniform pattern before. Amazing Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Aug 9, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Richard Taylor wrote: > The "noise" is atmospheric refraction. Can't do much about that. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > On Aug 09, 2010, at 2:04 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > >> I find the "weight" of the water and POV >> very compelling (in the tiny image). >> >> and the "noise" extremely unpleasant >> and totally destroying the effects mentioned above >> when viewing the larger image >> >> which I don't understand. >> I thought the d300 held the noiseless record to date. >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richard Taylor wrote: >> >>> Last Saturday we had one of our rare super visibility days on the water >>> and a knife-edge horizon. Usually, distant views show vertical >>> smearing due to refraction. >>> >>> The was taken on Vineyard Sound from a point just off Woods Hole. The >>> boats are at the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. East >>> Chop is the point of land to the left; West Chop the one to the right. >>> This a 100% crop with the 70-200 zoom at 200 mm from about 3.6 nautical >>> miles off West Chop. The horizon is about 2 miles away from our >>> position. >>> >>> The scene was very low contrast and the autofocus on the D300 had a hard >>> time locking up. Manual focus wasn't much better since the lens has no >>> infinity stop. Only two shots out of ten were properly focused. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_boating/300_8509.jpg.html >>> or >>> http://tinyurl.com/2ctkot6 >>> >>> C&C always welcome. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Dick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information