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Originally Posted by JohnG
You realize, as a new member of the Dark Side, you'll have to stop saying positive things about Canon now, right?
Yeah, that's a condition of the warranty, and was made clear to me during the initiation ritual.
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Originally Posted by JohnG
As to the purple fringing - I'll be interested to see if it's a pattern or not. I recall asking some professional sports photographers about it and one of my lenses. I was surprised to hear them say, even with their 300mm and 400mm 2.8 lenses it's still a problem in certain situations. So, the point is - that while some lenses may be more prone to it than others, even the best lenses on the market still have a problem with it in certain situations. It will be interesting to see whether this is a rare or regular issue. Keep us posted.
It only happens when illuminated by sunlight (direct or indirect), not when under the sodium vapor lights (not mercury vapor lights like I said in my initial post.) (Of course, sodium vapor lights don't have a lot of violet and UV anyway.) I don't like the idea of applying some negative exposure compensation, but I don't like the alternatives either. I'm using center-weighted metering, and have upped the area from 8mm to 10mm (A neat little tweak all by itself. Thank you Nikon.) which might help keep the saddle pads from overexposing.
I don't want to switch to matrix metering because wherever I shoot, there's an open door not far away. I'm also loath to shoot RAW, not only because it will slow down continuous shooting, but for the time to post process. I shoot hundreds of photos at a time. I'm preparing to shoot a Dressage clinic next Tuesday and Wednesday, and my wife has already told everyone that I bought a new camera for the ocassion. I will definately end up with thousands of images to sift through. I can't do that in RAW for several reasons.
