----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Gonzalez" Subject: Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See
> > 2. Better software for chromatic aberrations This is where I am really > > ignorant. But it seems to me that good interpolation (?) software might distribute > > the results of chromatic aberration better, so that digital apes film more. I > > mean, people are not going to be happy when they discover that one half of > > their lenses do not work that well with a DSLR. I wouldn't be happy shopping > > around for older lenses, having to find out which one had bad effects on a DSLR. > > > Interesting concept, although it would probably be relatively difficult > to determine what is a chromatic aberration versus true adjacent color > deltas. If you did a blind blend while preserving luminosity, it would > eliminate some of it, at the cost of general color "softness" (I'm not > sure what you call this). I had always though that chromatic aberation was a lens deficiency. Blaming a lens problem on digital capture seems like shooting the messenger. The answer is lenses that are better corrected for chromatic aberation, though this may mean compromising some other lens defect. William Robb
