Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:16 +1100, David Hodson wrote: > Should be easy(-ish) : > > Split image into red, green, blue channels. > Apply lens correction to red and blue channels to align with green. > Recombine channels. That would work well if the light was combined out of exactly three wel

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread David Hodson
norman wrote: > I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital > camera and most of the images produced suffer from chromatic aberration > somewhere within them. I have tried to find some procedure to remove > these blemishes but, so far, have not found anything I can get to wo

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread bgw
Simon Roberts wrote: > See Ken Rockwell's comments on "it's not the camera" at > http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm > An excellent discussion, although Rockwell fails to mention Ansel Adams's darkroom artistry (see wikipedia on Ansel Adams and the associated reference 18). __

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-18-08 10:53]: > < snip > > > > > Unfortunately, ca is controlled in lense manufacture and design and > > has two solutions, software or better glass. Minimizing ca via > > technique would severly limit your scope, imo. > > I would expect most lenses these days to

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Bruno Postle
On Tue 18-Mar-2008 at 16:23 +, norman wrote: > >> http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2008_ideas#tCA_Correction > >This seems to assume that the optics are the cause of the CA whereas I >understand that CA is also caused by the chip in e digital camera. Will >this process take care of that? Nope. -

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread norman
- < snip > > Are you "copying" the slides, or are you scanning them? > > If you're using a slide copying attachment and effectively rephotographing > them onto your digital camera, then the CA of the copying equipment will be a

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Rolf Steinort
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:33 +, norman wrote: > I feel sure that you must be correct. I have never seen any noticeable > fringing or CA effects with my ordinary photography it is only with this > project I set myself of copying a lot of old colour transparencies. In > the old days I used to of

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Rolf Steinort
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:23 +, norman wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:46 +, Bruno Postle wrote: > > On Tue 18-Mar-2008 at 08:13 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > > > > >Software can certainly help with this, and "that other product" has > > >this built in. Then again, you can buy a coupl

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Rolf Steinort
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:23 +, norman wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:46 +, Bruno Postle wrote: > > On Tue 18-Mar-2008 at 08:13 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > > > > >Software can certainly help with this, and "that other product" has > > >this built in. Then again, you can buy a coupl

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > CA is indeed a function of the lens quality. You're also right that a smaller > sensor makes CA more visible, that's just simple geometry. If the lens > produces an abberation of any given size, then if the sensor is half the >

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread norman
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:46 +, Bruno Postle wrote: > On Tue 18-Mar-2008 at 08:13 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > > >Software can certainly help with this, and "that other product" has > >this built in. Then again, you can buy a couple of really nice > >lenses for the price you'll pay for tha

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Bruno Postle
On Tue 18-Mar-2008 at 08:13 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > >Software can certainly help with this, and "that other product" has >this built in. Then again, you can buy a couple of really nice >lenses for the price you'll pay for that product ;> Not an immediate solution, but 'over at the hugin pr

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread norman
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 08:13 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > > - Original Message > From: norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:52:22 AM > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration > > < sni

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:52:22 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration < snip > > > Unfortunately, ca is controlled in lense manufacture and design and &

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread norman
< snip > > > Unfortunately, ca is controlled in lense manufacture and design and > has two solutions, software or better glass. Minimizing ca via > technique would severly limit your scope, imo. I would expect most lenses these days to be made such that they do not cause CA. From what I have rea

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-18-08 09:46]: > Therefore, I believe what I should do is concentrate on photographic > techniques with a view to minimising the chromatic aberration as much > as possible. Any advice in this direction would be very welcome. Unfortunately, ca is controlled in lense

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-18 Thread norman
Thank you very much for trying to help me sort out the problem. It looks very much as though any procedure would be both complex and time consuming without any guarantee of success. Therefore, I believe what I should do is concentrate on photographic techniques with a view to minimising the chromat

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread Elwin Estle
I think there used to be a plugin in the registry for doing this, but I can't remember the name of it. Dunno if it would work in 2.4 or not. --- norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital > camera and most of the images produced suff

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread David Gowers
Given a sample image I can be more specific than the following: 1 Decompose the image into LAB channels. 2 Despeckle the AB channels (oilify with low exponent is also an option) 3 Recompose On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:09:47PM -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital > > camera and most of the images produced suffer from chromatic aberration > > somewhere with

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital > camera and most of the images produced suffer from chromatic aberration > somewhere within them. I have tried to find some procedure to remove > these blemis