Terry
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Yes, I have never had a good experience with that site/software. Gotta love the .mac public folders they come in VERY handy!Oh lordy, Yousendit is evil.
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Yes, I have never had a good experience with that site/software. Gotta love the .mac public folders they come in VERY handy!Oh lordy, Yousendit is evil.
I use them all the time for my world-spanning, virtual bands. They're great!Yes, I have never had a good experience with that site/software. Gotta love the .mac public folders they come in VERY handy!
terry
Got 'em. f/1.4 on the cans? That's what the maker Notes think it is.Oh lordy, Yousendit is evil.
I'll see if I can squeeze in a boffin shot or two during the day here and I'll put it in the same place when I can.
I think it probably has focus shift. If you look at the shots of your sister, the ones at f1.4 are soft, while the the f2 are nice and sharp.Yep. 1.4 on the cans. And yeah, I think it does backfocus a bit.
Actually, I looked at those, and thought that the plane of sharpest focus was a little in front of the eyes (which is where we usually focus). That's judging from the weave in the sweater. On the shots of her father, the eyeglasses are sharpest, but that's a common place to focus. Maggie, do you recall which can you focussed on - the middle or No. 4? So maybe it is focusing a little in front of what the rangefinder converged on. It's hard to know without careful notes. If this is true it is not out by much, and probably does clear up by f/2.0.I think it probably has focus shift. If you look at the shots of your sister, the ones at f1.4 are soft, while the the f2 are nice and sharp.
Did you focus on the side of the can or on the letters on the front? The sharpest part of the image seems to be the lettering on can #4, which is a little closer to the can edge than the letters on the front of the middle can. But if you focussed on the lettering on can #3 it is back-focusing. Nice rendering of the objects off to the side, BTW, and generally nice OOF rendering, except for the strange lines that glow out of the chair rails on the left and the funny stuff that happens with the picture at the rear.On the shot I posted, I focused on the middle can. Camera on tripod, used self-timer to release the shutter.
Man, I soooo do not want to be That Guy™, you know? I'm usually a pretty go-with-the-flow kind of gal.Pixel-peeping at 100% with a f/1.4 lens on the M8 is an invitation to get very frustrated, as I've seen on the LUF with all the agony spent on the Leica Summilux 35/1.4-asph. That exhibits focus shift as you stop down, complaints of backfocus are common, all that hair-pulling stuff.