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Re: digicam purple fringe Vs B&W

2005-02-25 by Djon

Yes. My only digicam is a two-yr-old antique Canon 3.2 ...it seems not
to produce purple fringes... I've been thinking about the Olympus
c8080 which reportedly equals Olympus DSLR optics...

Rodinal, an ancient B&W film developer, puts a black line at that
border, where you have white...one of the reasons it's survived so
long (it's also ultra-sharp, doesn't dissolve grain). 

What I'm wondering is actually "which digicam most closely
approximates an old Leica in B&W?"  In other words, discrete /
fast-responding / optically excellent. 

However a white fringe would look too much like oversharpening. Black
fringe might however be attractive, like darkroom diffusion or Rodinal. 


 I began to notice some strange
> lines-- "ghosts"-- in the image: these pale lines ran alongside
> (parallel to) various high-contrast edges throughout the image
> (wherever there was snow against dark background. 
>

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