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RE: [Digital BW] Re: digicam purple fringe Vs B&W

2005-02-25 by Seth

I wasn't picking on you. I was explaining to those who didn't understand WHY
it's there and WHY those cameras do that.

Chill!!

Seth 

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Phil Rose [mailto:pjrose@...] 

==> 
==
==So what's your point--except the obvious? My point was simply 
==to try to answer the previous question by describing my 
==experience--that chromatic abberations can appear much more 
==severe in a converted B&W than in the original color image; 
==and that judicious use of the blue-channel info can minimize 
==the problem in B&W. Naturally by using better optics that 
==avoid chromatic abberations you can, well, avoid chromatic 
==abberations/purple fringing.
==
==Phil.
==

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