Digital BW, The Print

>Scroll down to the wide angle images.  It's sad. 
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>While the wide angle vignetting can be compensated for electronically or in
>Photoshop, it nevertheless exacerbates the limited latitude of the sensors.

Paul --

Maybe not so sad...

It's true that there is moderate vignetting on the R-D1 with wide angle lenses.

I have the CV 12mm lens with which a few of the images I recently posted were taken which is one of the "worst" offenders.

It also true that the PhotoRAW software application that comes with the R-D1 has a nifty way to easily compensate for the vignetting.

The "but" I'm getting to is that the vignetted images I have taken so far for the most part are far more dramatic WITH the vignetting then without. When processing the images off of the SD card, I will often intentionally NOT correct the vignetting or only do so partially.

Perhaps I am only doing some rationalization here but I consider the vignetting to more of a plus then I do a minus.

Dave.
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David Keenan, ausdlk@... on 3/27/2006