Rolls Royce Special Edition

Saw this "Rolls Royce Convertible" at Wallington Hall today and thought it must be a special edition.

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Stan

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PPG

I think that you may be right Stan

Nice shots of a nice motor

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K10D, K5 plus plenty of clueless enthusiasm.

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Beautiful car.

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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
Francis Bacon
One or two odd snaps I have taken.

There all special in my book

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Don.(the retired baker)

Both shots look out of focus here. It looks like there's some back focussing going on #1 the spare tyres are more in focus than the first and on #2 the car behind looks more in focus.

have you calibrated the AF fine tune for your lenses?

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The focusing problem could be due to the photographer Have not attempted to calibrate the lenses, in this case a Pentax 18-135mm. My eyesight isn't all that good either. What is the best way to test my lenses for these problems. Thanks for the useful comments.

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Stan

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PPG

These were taken with the same lens does the back focus manifest itself here. As stated previously my eyesight isn't that good

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Stan

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PPG

That is unusual .... Should look nice when they paint it!

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Pentax K-5 and some other stuff

Algi

Rolls-Royce don't do special editions as they are all special, i.e. made to the customers specifications and always have.

As for the shots being out of focus, just had my annual eye test, no change, still 2 lines better than standard and they look sharp to me.

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I wouldn't start worrying about back focus, they look fine, especially if you click for the full size versions.

If it is needed, calibration really does make a difference, particularly at wide apertures, short distance and longer focal lengths. The following might not be the best way - you can buy expensive kits - but it is a simple method that works for me, and you can use it almost anywhere:

Put a page of text (e.g. a magazine page) flat on a table in good lighting. Set Av Mode and set the 18-135 lens to 50mm focal length with open aperture f/4.5. Hold your camera (steady hand can work but tripod is best) looking down at the page at an angle of about 45 degrees, and about 50cm away. Use the centre focusing point to auto-focus on an obvious word in the text, e.g. one at the start of a paragraph, and take the photo. View the image on the LCD and magnify the view. The word should be in sharpest focus, plus a few lines of text below that word (i.e. nearer to you) and a few more lines above (i.e. further away from you). (Because of the way depth of field works, there should be more lines of text in focus above the word than below.) Repeat the test several times to check and, if necessary, apply some lens fine adjustment and re-check. On a K-5 it is in menu C4/26. My 18-135 on a K-5 needs +4 of fine adjustment.

Philip

More twaddle

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Ken

Thanks Ken

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Regards
Stan

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PPG

You could do yourself a favour and start helping photographers. You may not know anything about AF Fine tuning on cameras but that doesn't mean others do not.

You're supposed to be part of the 'team' and that means helping people here in a manner that contains some substance rather than just shouting 'twaddle' and embarrassing yourself.

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OK, you'd rather thank someone who has nothing constructive to say?

I was just trying to be constructive and offer feedback on another forum member's images. I look at hundreds of images a day, both my own and others and there's nothing wrong with my eyesight.

Unlike Mr Gartmore above I do know something about AF Fine tuning on DLSRs. Pentax don't add the feature for no reason.


MrB also took some time to explain to you how to calibrate the AF on your lenses which you admitted you hadn't checked.


So originally it was a 'useful comment', and then later on you choose green highlight a post by a non-constructive poster who couldn't be bothered to input more than a vacuous reply and then thank him for it.

It's hardly encouraging people to spend time reviewing and constructively commenting on your images is it?

What's the deal? Do you want constructive critique on your work or not? Just say the word and we won't bother in future.

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