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*** December 2025 Images & Videos Thread ***

Something different. Playing around with using Affinity Photo 2 to remove Chromatic Aberration from a test photo (a S5iiX Hi-Res 96MP RAW). I don't have a lot of experience using the app. Its CA removal tool is a one-click operation. I don't know if a high contrast image like this one is easier for apps to remove CA, or if a real-world random photo is more difficult. In any event, in this test it worked really well.

The 1st image is a crop of the original photo's full width (12,000 pixels), scaled-down to 50% (6,000 pixels) so the JPEG wouldn't be too gigantic.
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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
  • ƒ/8
  • 300mm
  • 1/40s
  • ISO 1250


The 2nd image is the same Hi-Res photo, but with CA removed by Affinity Photo 2. It's also scaled-down to 50% (6,000 pixels).
pjd_lumix-70-300mm-lens-at-300mm-f8-s5iix-hi-res-p1012925-ap2-removed-ca-scale-50.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
  • ƒ/8
  • 300mm
  • 1/40s
  • ISO 1250
 
Finally finished going through the Cosmosphere pics... been feeling sluggish and not wanting to dig through the pics to cull/post-process. :(

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20251130-SDIM8981 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Hexanon 28/3.5

Good old Odyssey... still the same basic presentation, though they added a fancy frame:

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20251130-SDIM9002 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
TTArtisan 11mm fisheye

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20251130-SDIM8994 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
One of the few areas that didn't change at all with the renovation, but I welcomed the chance to capture it with the fisheye.

And the fisheye definitely gave a better view with these pics of the LM engineering model from the last post. (I had a lot of trouble trying to capture a worthwhile interior shot using rectilinear lenses, no matter how wide.)

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20251130-SDIM8996 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20251130-SDIM8998 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20251130-SDIM9016 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Another place it helped was the Apollo-Soyuz display, which doesn't have enough room to back off and get a full-width shot with a rectilinear lens.

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20251130-SDIM9026 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

This is about the best you can do rectilinear:

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20251130-SDIM9040 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Hexanon 28/3.5

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20251130-SDIM9031 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20251130-SDIM9029 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And we'll finish with my old friend the Blackbird:

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20251130-SDIM9085 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Full set of pics up at https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCDutG for anyone interested.
 
Great photos, and that Sigma 45mm is a great lens.
 
I love NYC and have lots of photos of it, mostly in the wintertime (because I went to a conference there in January over many years). I suspect I won't be visiting the US again though given the new procedures around social media declaration and other requirements from the US govt. It's a real pity, I'm very much an "Ameriphile" having lived there for three years and still having a lot of friends over there.
 
Pete_W said:
Great photos, and that Sigma 45mm is a great lens.
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Agreed, a great lens, little complaints when used for this type of work. I do wish it what a 40mm as the extra 5mm is a little tight on crowded NYC sidewalks. But then again, I would have tried to shoot a little differently with the 45, (more distance from subject with viewpoint of looking from street in towards buildings/windows like some of Helen Levitt's work). But with crowds, traffic, and barricades, this is a bit more of a challenge. Especially when walking with someone else...
 
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