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pKai wrote:
Sebboh: These are the full images shrunk down to the resolution you see with no other processing.... I just went and magnified in Lightroom and both eyes seem equal.... this figurine is only a foot tall -- the head is maybe an inch tall... so at that angle, the eyes were maybe a millimeter off-plane with each other.
I just added 200% blowups of the eyes for both.... The rear eye looks more contrasty partly because is painted a bit darker and the light was from camera right -- single key light with subject in light tent plus a very small light above the tent. The key light was direct -- not through the tent fabric....Show more →
i was trying to judge focus by the loCA, the green didn't show up as strongly as the red. looking at 200% it looks like you got her right between the eyes.
pKai wrote:
I don't see any difference in viewfinder brightness at all down to 2.8 -- when I jump to 5.6, then it becomes more obvious. I can see a difference in DOF if its something obvious... In this shot, stopping down I could see the bouquet she's holding sharpening up.... In the typical scene, not so much... None of that seems any different to me than doing stop-down metering/focusing on a FF film camera -- other than the obvious decease in overall brightness with the smaller screen. My very first SLR was a Canon FTb with an FL lens which did not have an auto-iris...... so this does not seem that alien to me....Show more →
i've never had to use stop down metering on a film slr so i don't know what that was like. i certainly remember prism blackout though with long slow telephotos. i did see a noticeable difference when i borrowed a 5D with the precision matte screen.
pKai wrote:
Getting off-topic, but BTW, I'm not that old..  -- I was just that poor that for most of my life -- I was always a good 10-15 years behind.... In the 80s, I had mostly 60s, early 70s stuff, etc... Along the way, I learned that one does not need the latest gear to make good images.... Nowadays, I can probably afford to get the latest if I wanted to, but I tend to stick to what works and only "upgrade" when there are tangible things the new stuff will let me do that translates to better photography -- like shooting handheld at 1/10 sec with IS which prmpted me to trade my 1990s vintage 70-200 2.8L for the IS version -- or focus-track birds in flight with a 7D, which prompted me to get it over my 20D. When it comes to other things like macro, however, I still use 40 year old Nikon lenses and bellows that I bought 20 years ago cheap from some guy that had to have new stuff...... I've yet to see anything newer that will improve my images in that area....Show more →
i'm still in that boat as far as what i can afford. luckily the digital age has increased depreciation substantially so i can afford a camera much sooner than 10 ten years after its release. i was excited about the 7D because the idea of functional autofocus tracking sounds quite nice and given the way canons depreciate it would probably be affordable before the D300 is. the lack of interchangeable focus screen kind of killed that interest though when i found out about it. in any event it'll be at least 6 months till i get a new camera and it could end up being a crop camera with good autofocus and a bigger viewfinder, a used FF camera, or µ4/3 camera. each of these would greatly expand my capabilities in a different way. i have time to decide what i'm most interested in improving.
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