Re: Lensbaby Sponsored Selective Blur Photography Competition

David Kilpatrick wrote:
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
> 
>> Then take a look at a section of an actual part of the 10 megapixel 
>> Sony A100 image - remember this is a manually focused image taken at 
>> the full f2 aperture of a doublet LD cemented lens, and it's actually 
>> shot through cabinet glass as well:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/davidkilpatrick/image/79029213/original.jpg
>>
>> The lettering on the watch is define about as sharply as I would 
>> expect any 50mm f2 six-element lens to do under these conditions, and 
>> the artefacts with their coma-tail shapes and rainbows are beyond any 
>> quick Photoshop retouching or FX.
> 
> 
> My error - this is a 17 megapixel ex****t, of course, not an actual size 
> file. The image is ex****ted to 5120 pixels high using PS2 ACR. When I 
> reproduce pix in print I tend to take the original to A3+ this way, or 
> the reader has absolutely no idea of the sharpness or detail. It is, 
> also, free from any unsharp masking or sharpening - prefer to see the 
> native sharpness of the system.
> 

Further error - it's a section of another shot, which was vertical, 
taken at the same time - 5120 high refers to a vertical image. 
Conditions were identical, actually the next watch in the cabinet.

David