Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-02-03 Thread B.Rumary
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stuart wrote: But,of course ,no-one would do so while looking through the viewfinder as this would be extremely detrimental to ones eyesight and if the shutter was released would it not burn the blind ?? I don't think this is true of SLR's, as the image is formed on

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-02-01 Thread Rob Geraghty
It looks like a polarizing effect to me. Personally I don't use polarizers with wide angle lenses with lots of sky in the image because I don't like the effect. It's probably an individual thing. Great picture otherwise. Thanks! I guess I'm just a sucker for saturated colours. ;) Rob

filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Rob Geraghty
Apologies to those who are using the digest, because the attached picture will appear as encoded ascii. A while back I was in touch with a guy from a stock photo company and I sent a low res jpeg of a photo of mine, which he claimed showed vignetting. Now to me, vignetting in the camera is

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Moore
Rob, As you stated, the effect is fall-off due the nature of the polarizer I used to do a lot of landscape work, never had a publisher reject any polarized sky shots, but I also tried to cull the ones with too much drop off in the sky... Maybe you ought to submit digital files where you've

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Gordon Tassi
The effect is not actually vignetting in a in a traditional photographic sense. The effect of the polarizer is heavier on the left side. The sky and sea seem darker on the right side due to the polarizer. I agree with you on the vignetting from lenses. The other vignetting effect can be seen

RE: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread shAf
Rob Geraghty writes ... ... Now to me, vignetting in the camera is caused by a wide-angle lens "seeing" the edges of a filter. ... But the effect I believe he was attributing to vignetting is caused by a polariser - the sky tends to be darker at the edge of the photo, sometimes on one

RE: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Stuart
At 07:35 31-01-01 -0800, you wrote: If you had a wide enough lens and pointed the camera in the direction of the sun, then the effect would be circular (altho with respect to the sun, not the lens). shAf :o) But,of course ,no-one would do so while looking through the viewfinder as this

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread IronWorks
I don't know if technically it is vignetting, but I find it distracting and therefore objectionable. Sorry. Maris - Original Message - From: "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 7:33 AM Subject: filmscanners: Vignetting?

RE: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Frank Paris
=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Vignetting? Apologies to those who are using the digest, because the attached picture

RE: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread shAf
Stuart writes ... At 07:35 31-01-01 -0800, you wrote: If you had a wide enough lens and pointed the camera in the direction of the sun, then the effect would be circular (altho with respect to the sun, not the lens). shAf :o) But,of course ,no-one would do so while

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Roger Smith
At 11:33 PM +1000 1/31/01, Rob Geraghty wrote: Would anyone on the list call the variation in the sky in the attached jpeg vignetting? I don't find the effect objectionable, but are publishers really likely to? No, I wouldn't call it vignetting, but it is a bit distracting (but then

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Rob Geraghty
Gordon wrote: The effect is not actually vignetting in a in a traditional photographic sense. Thanks. I didn't think it was. The effect of the polarizer is heavier on the left side. The sky and sea seem darker on the right side due to the polarizer. It all depends on the angle of the

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Herm
Yes its vignetting, you can easily take it out with Photoshop. I'm curious, what lens and camera did you use?..was it a lens with a T-adapter? "Rob Geraghty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would anyone on the list call the variation in the sky in the attached jpeg vignetting? I don't find the

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Rob Geraghty
Harm wrote: Yes its vignetting, you can easily take it out with Photoshop. OK, a couple of people have said it could be removed with Photoshop but I haven't a clue how. Could someone please enlighten me? Off list may be more appropriate. I'm curious, what lens and camera did you use?..

Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?

2001-01-31 Thread Jim Snyder
Rob Geraghty wrote: Apologies to those who are using the digest, because the attached picture will appear as encoded ascii. A while back I was in touch with a guy from a stock photo company and I sent a low res jpeg of a photo of mine, which he claimed showed vignetting. Now to me,