>
> I suppose it's possible that your thrift store diving for stray,
> mongrel lenses has gone awry, but there seem to be bits of
> sharpness where the focal plane is. I do know you are apparently
> using brands I wouldn't take for free, but doubt that's much of
> the problem.
>
<<SNIP>>
>
>I hope that you can find this critique useful. I love the stuff
> you shoot, but would enjoy clear images of it even more.
>
It may be more due to my compressing the image down to 400-500K before
uploading it into Flickr. The originl JPG images are 1.7M or so and I would
quickly use up the allowed space if I didn't compress them.
There's also the nagging problem that I have with windy conditions.
Sometimes I get lucky if I wait long enough and everything stops moving for a
few moments. If not, I open up the aperture and knock down the shutter speed
to get a good image, which leads to some DOF trouble. I took ten photos of
those Clarkia and only two of them were presentable.
Speaking of mongrel lenses, I came across a 3X teleconverter with a Sears
label the other day on eBay. It looked curiously similar to a couple of
Vivitar/Tokina accessories that I have. Sure enough, even the positions of the
screw holes matched. Turned out to be just as sharp as the Sigma tele-macro
I've been using.
Okay, it's not dead-nuts professional quality, but I'm enjoying
photography more than before now that I have more degrees of freedom and it's
not costing me a king's ransom.
Chris
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