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Re: [OM] Don't trust all you read on the internet

Subject: Re: [OM] Don't trust all you read on the internet
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:22:58 +1000
Yes, it didn't read right to me, but I'm no expert on English grammar, so
didn't pick up the nature of the error.

...Wayne



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From: olympus
[mailto:olympus-bounces+wayne.harridge=structuregraphs.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
] On Behalf Of Piers Hemy
Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2015 1:58 AM
To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Don't trust all you read on the internet

Yebbut nobody has picked up on the worst aspect of Wayne's quoted passage

... wait for it ....

The writer uses "deteriorated" as a .... transitive verb!

Further comment would be wasted.

Piers

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From: olympus
[mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 22 September 2015 16:31
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Don't trust all you read on the internet

And he is probably relating f/16 vs. f/11 to increased exposure time and
therefore diffraction must be caused by longer exposure. :-) Some day he'll
be corrected.

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/21/2015 2:09 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/20/2015 11:39 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>> I came across this strange misconception about exposure time and
>> diffraction:
>>
>> " I try to stick with an aperture of around f8 and not go higher than 
>> f11, meaning I try to keep the aperture close to the sweet spot of my 
>> lens, so I can capture the clearest and sharpest image I can capture. 
>> This is important in long exposure since the longer the exposure the 
>> more the RAW file will be exposed to diffraction (which happens at 
>> apertures of f16 or more) a phenomenon that deteriorates the clarity 
>> of the images."
>
> It's because the writer doesn't know what diffraction is, only that 
> it's a bad thing.
>
> Diffracted Moose
>
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