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Debbie E. Payne 		 

I Need Help with LensBabies!


 
 
I just got a LensBaby this past summer and it didn't come with very good instructions. Consequently, I haven't used it much. What causes the purple aberrations around the edges of the flowers in this photo? Or is this just something that occurs with the LensBaby? I would like to begin to use this little lens a bit more "smartly".


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December 13, 2006

 

W. 		  "The purple aberrations around the edges of the flowers" are what's known as 'purple fringing', formally 'chromatic abberation'. It occurs in high contrast situations. It is a function of all lenses, but can be optically corrected. Better corrected lenses (read: more expensive) have less of it.

I have no experience with lensbabies.


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December 13, 2006

 

Debbie E. Payne 		  Thank you W.S.
I thought that was what chromatic aberrations were but haven't dealt with them much. If I took this photo in RAW, as well as Large JPEG then I should be able to do something with that perhaps?


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