Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The "noise" is atmospheric refraction. Can't do much about that. Regards, Dick On Aug 09, 2010, at 2:04 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > I find the "weight" of the water and POV > very compelling (in the tiny image). > > and the "noise" extremely unpleasant > and totally destroying the effects mentioned above > when viewing the larger image > > which I don't understand. > I thought the d300 held the noiseless record to date. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richard Taylor wrote: > >> Last Saturday we had one of our rare super visibility days on the water >> and a knife-edge horizon. Usually, distant views show vertical smearing >> due to refraction. >> >> The was taken on Vineyard Sound from a point just off Woods Hole. The >> boats are at the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. East >> Chop is the point of land to the left; West Chop the one to the right. >> This a 100% crop with the 70-200 zoom at 200 mm from about 3.6 nautical >> miles off West Chop. The horizon is about 2 miles away from our position. >> >> >> The scene was very low contrast and the autofocus on the D300 had a hard >> time locking up. Manual focus wasn't much better since the lens has no >> infinity stop. Only two shots out of ten were properly focused. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_boating/300_8509.jpg.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/2ctkot6 >> >> C&C always welcome. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information