[Leica] IMG: Dawn Memories

[Tina Manley]

The last one.  This one is at 1/60 instead of 1/90 but still looks sharp to
me.  I prefer the horizontal composition, though.

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159482008

Tina

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> wrote:

> Tina,
>
> They look in focus to my eyes… But it seems the first picture (in the
> early morning?) might have minimal traces of blur as if the camera moved or
> something… The second has traces of banding in the shadows, everything else
> looks just fine.
>
> All the best from Paris!
>
> Tarek
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tarek Charara
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>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
>
>
>
> > Le 19 mars 2015 à 14:39, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > OK this is driving me crazy.  I didn't sleep at all last night and I
> can't
> > continue to edit my Cuba photos until I get this sorted out.  This photo
> > was made with my 50 Summilux, the sharpest lens I have.  The way I judge
> > sharpness is to view the photo at 100% - just like the stock agencies
> tell
> > you to.  Here is a 100% enlargement of that photo:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159481904
> >
> > Is that sharp or not?  If not, there is something wrong with my eyes.
> >
> > Here is a shot a short time later with a little more light:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159481902
> >
> > Here is a 100% enlargement of that shot:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/image/159481905
> >
> > Is it sharp?  Am I going blind?
> >
> > Please let me know.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Tina,
> >>
> >> Technical wise I have no idea what's causing the effect because I've
> never
> >> given one twit of technical thought about photography! I just enjoy my
> >> photographic love affair without question! :-) :-) HOWEVER? :-)
> >>
> >> 1/ It kind of doesn't look sharp?
> >> 2/ If you kind of move your head about while looking at the screen it
> >> looks sharp sort of when you kind of angle your head to screen..
> >> 3/It looks like it's sharp but blown - up a zillion times shot on ASA 1O
> >> film.
> >> 4/Looking through the four sizes none of them seem to have what I'd
> call a
> >> sharp Leica edge line anywhere. All edges seem to have a tiny bit of a
> >> glow. Which appears to remove sharpness.
> >> 5/ My first re-action was it was taken through one of those lenses that
> >> nothing is ever sharp-sharp. It's the kind, one of the old time photogs
> >> used on green peppers & people got wet pants with excitement when used!
> >> They look kind of sharp. But? Looked kind of just off the super-sharp
> edge.
> >> 6/ Never mind all the various computer screens..... Run off a 13X19 full
> >> frame B&W print. Then come back and tell us what it looks like?
> >>
> >> Certainly an interesting effect. But it has absolutely nothing to do
> with
> >> whether you focused the lens properly. And if this is the "ONLY FRAME
> YOU
> >> SEE IT ON????????????????" Don't sweat it! Write it off as some kind of
> >> ATMOSPHERE situation." :-)
> >>
> >> Life is too short knocking yourself out over one ordinary image. Neither
> >> is wasting the time typing all the e-mails back and forth.
> >>
> >> Just go and sit down, pour yourself a nice single malt and smile while
> >> enjoying all the thoughts of the hundreds, nay, thousands of amazing
> CUBA
> >> photos you came home with!  Now don't you feel better? NO! NO! Don't let
> >> another thought about whatever this is enter your thoughts! And forget
> >> "curiosity I just want to know???."
> >>
> >> Like, it just isn't worth all the time you and others have & are putting
> >> on the screen. Sure folks curiosity want to know  what made this effect.
> >> Good for them. BUT? It's all over one frame of thousands you exposed?
> >>
> >> I'm right! MAKE ONE 13x19 B&W PRINT! GAME AND ANSWER, it's OVER! :-)
> >> Because in print form it's going to look just fine as a print! And that
> my
> >> dear lady is all that matters in the end! Besides all your other photos
> >> completely over ride all this!!! :-)
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Dr. ted
> >>
> >>
> >>
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