Was the english garden in the Montreal botanic garden? Was there a few months ago but didn't see an english garden...then again the place was HUGE, a true macro HEAVEN.

Are you using kitlens? you can photoshop picture #2, or get ready for some bokeh poison
something like this, yes?


This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Jul 24 2007, 12:04 AM

Oh you were at Winnipeg? that's where I first landed in Canada. That was during winter and the temperature was around -30C and below studied for 4 months there, some few years ago. Never had a chance to actually look around the place.

The botanic garden in montreal is VERY huge, there's chinese garden, japanese garden, english garden, and a bunch more...all work in progress though.

Picture 1 is not noisy or anything, that's just how bokeh looks like with most consumer lens. The best bokeh I've seen on consumer grade lens is the 70-300mm VR

Check this out:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/bokeh-comparison.htm

hope i didnt poison you

oh btw, ur post 1, picture 1 of grace kena attack by flare...notice the loss of contrast? didn't use hood kar? sometimes can also be due to filter

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Jul 24 2007, 12:11 PM

First time I came into canada was through:
Msia -> Sg -> Narita -> Minneapolis -> Winnipeg

I didn't even go to the casino, but my friends did. I was quite a book worm and it was freaking cold out there.

Yeah I went to Niagara, TO, ottawa, Montreal, and QC during my last vacation, photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kin0kin/sets/72157600232432645/

Flare is usually due to
1) Lens coat (nothing you can do about this...buy other lens)
2) no hood
3) filter

Buy good filter. Some filter like ordinary Hoya is only single coated, if there's alot of room between your outer element and the filter, internal reflection can cause alot of flares. Like my 77mm hoya cpl on my telephoto...it is unusable. I now use hoya super hmc on my telephoto and macro, tiffen haze-1 on my 50mm and wide zoom. Works good

Who told you to remove the hood to avoid vignetting? Usually you'd only get vignetting with hood @ wide angle and lens wide open. Mild vignetting is not a problem, u can easily fix it with photoshop (raw). Vignetting is history...unless you shoot film. My tamron shows vignetting @ 17mm f2.8, absolutely normal. Always shoot with hood even if it's indoor.

Yup, go do your troubleshooting but you can always keep ur filter on now, but always keep the hood on. If your lens still capture those flares again, then only see if it's the filter lor...better protection this way

wah lau...everybody oso slingshot ar? pro's favorite bag lol

AW sap sap sui, put a few of this in the bag :

nvm lar...that time chop off ur mum and tarpau it also lar