Help with missing rainbow

On 11/11/2010 9:30 AM, Robert Coe wrote:


I guess the takeaway from this story is, "At the end of a shoot, when you
return your camera to grabshot settings, be sure to remove the polarizer!" ;^)


Now if only we can remove the polarizing threads from NGs.

--
Peter

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"tcroyer" wrote:

Given that I can see traces of the rainbow in the landscape mode shots, the
information must be there, but I can't figure out the PE8 incantations
necessary to bring it out.


"Auto Levels" usually works very well on rainbows.

--
m-m
http://www.mhmyers.com

"Robert Coe" wrote in message
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:19:11 -0500, "tcroyer" wrote:
: "Giganews" wrote in message
: ...
:
:
: "tcroyer" wrote: (clip) When using portrait orientation, I got three
: really good shots, but when I
: changed to landscape, the rainbow faded and disappeared (right in the
: optical viewfinder) (mostly -- I can see it very faintly in the
processed
: image).
:
: What happened?
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: When you say it disappeared in the *optical viewfinder,* do you mean a
: through the lens viewfinder, or a separate optical path liker on the
old
: 35mm rangefinder cameras? If it was through the lens, my next
question
: is, "were you using a polarizing filter?" Did you rotate the camera
back
: to the portrait orientation to see whether the rainbow came back? I
can't
: think of anything but a polarizer that could produce such an effect,
and
: then only of you are viewing through the lens.
:
: I hope the three portrait shots were done in a mode for panoramic
: stitching.
:
:
: Bingo !
:
: Call me an idiot (actually, you're too late, I already did). As soon as
I
: read "polarizing filter", I knew what had had happened.

I guess the takeaway from this story is, "At the end of a shoot, when you
return your camera to grabshot settings, be sure to remove the polarizer!"
;^)

Amen to that.



Bob