----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Chicken****
> > You can actually stand there and tell me you find a 3% difference in > height/width ratios _significant_? You can see that, without actually > measuring it? > > I suspect not one in a thousand can tell the difference between 1.62 > and 1.67 H/W ratios [rounded off]. > Understand, I'm not disputing you may be able to, but that's a mighty > small delta! Yup. But its one of those things that will bother you, but you won't know why. Years ago, I bought a Tokina 35-105 zoom lens. I happily used it for scenics and the like, then I did a shoot for a fellow who waned a record cover. We ended up shooting inside due to really incelemt weather. I did the shoot, and the fellow chose the shot for the cover, and ordered an 8x8 (waste of the 35mm negative!!) for the record jacket to be made from. I hated that picture, though I didn't know why. The pose was perfect, the lighting was great, the exposure was spot on and the tonal range rocked. This one pissed me off, everything worked, and I hated the damned picture. Anyway, I pinned it to my wall, I wanted to know what it was that turned my stomach about it. Finally, after a couple of weeks, I took a straight edge to the thing. Turned out the lens had some barrel distortion. Not much, not enough that it jumped out and said hi, just enough to piss me of without knowing why. Don't know if there was a point to that or not. William Robb
