Remember about a week ago I mentioned that I used the M9 to shoot a significant portion of a job? Well, it turned out to be a significant learning experience...
I learned that business attire and an AA free sensor can make for bad combinations:
I\'d say that virtually all of the M9 images where the people were more than 50% of the image resulted in some moire. It depended on a lot of variables such as fabric type, lens, distance, depth of field, focus, etc.
I was dreading that I\'d have to fix all of the images in Photoshop, but luckily was able to find a reasonable solution within Lightroom. It\'s not perfect, but these photos are not for a clothing/fabric manufacturer, so chances are slim that the residual moire distortion will be an issue. The photos were for the school of business at the local university, fwiw.
The quick and dirty fix was to brush in 100% desaturation and apply a suitable color to it from the color picker. In this sample, the woman on left was left at neutral desaturation, while a slight blue cast was added to the guy in the middle.
M9 & ZM21. It tended to be worse with the 35 and especially the 50, which are both sharper lenses. FWIW, I also noticed some moire in certain Canon 1DIV images, but it was the exception and generally already subdued. This has got me wondering about using the M9 for corporate functions as well as weddings, though for weddings usually the wedding party\'s attire should be less of a problem.
