Datacolor User to User Support Group.

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, Vampire D <vampired@...> wrote:
 
> I've been trying to fix it with the SpyderLensCal but I haven't been having
> much luck.  I was shooting  wine bottle and seem to be noticing the
> difference more, but even at f/2.8 the DOF is large enough to make the test
> difficult.

Yes, that's why I ended up doing the sequence of shots (and the movie clip) from -20 to + 20 in the review and always making sure that I started each shot with the lens at infinity.

The  depth of field with slower lenses (say f/5.6) makes the whole thing feel a lot less precise than many initially expect (want) it to be. It's hardly surprising that some then go on to blame their lenses, their own (imagined) ineptitude, or the methodology they've been using.

As I mentioned, it's the tendency to think that good photography comes from the cost of what you're holding as opposed to what's in your head, that drives much of this - curiously I've noticed that it's almost entirely a male preoccupation - I guess women rarely buy $100/foot speaker cables either :-)

bye for now
Keith