Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes and no, Feli - You need the 'information' in the first place, and some flare can be virtually impossible to eliminate - but color fringing? vigneting? And various forms of vertical and horizontal distortion? It's amazing what software can do. ;-) On 5/28/05 12:23 PM, "Feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > Weeellllll, you can eliminate some optical problems in software, but > not not all > of them. The rule of "You can't make chicken salad out of chickens*it" > still applies. ;-) > > feli > > On May 28, 2005, at 8:48 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> What's the 'ethical' philosophical difference between some optical >> engineer >> twitching lens formulas endlessly to get rid of optical aberrations, >> and >> then producing a lens that is only available to/useable by folks who >> can >> afford to invest in a particular camera line - or chose to do so - and >> a >> software engineer twitching 1s and 0s so that Photoshop - or some other >> software - can eliminate the same aberrations at a later point in the >> process, thus allowing anyone who can afford/obtain a copy of the >> program to >> use whatever lens they like/can afford to get 'optically' similar >> results? >> >> Not a damn thing in my book. The later may not bode well for the >> financial >> survival of the former, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with >> what is >> or isn't photography, or what is or isn't real. ;-) >> > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com > > > no archive > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information