On Apr 5, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 01:38 , Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> >>> On 4/5/2011 11:01, Krisjanis Linkevics wrote: >>>> Beautiful. A welcome distraction from this "sharpness trumps everything" >>>> world. >>>> >>>> kris >>> >>> Thanks. I still regret (now a bit more) parting with this lens... >>> >>> By the way, my hunt for soft filter produced no results that I could have >>> stayed with. >> >> By filters do you mean physical filters? >> >> Because I think that taking sharpness out of a photo is something that could >> be done trivially easily in digital post processing. > > > But, the 85 Soft does not diminish the sharpness of the photo. It merely > provides varying degrees of 'fog' around the sharp image.
All of my digital signal processing classes were nearly 30 years ago, so I don't have the mathematical chops to do it today, but that's still just a simple 2-d transform, possibly using a high pass filter for edge detection. > > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. > — from the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
