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Nice snapshot. The hint of landscape helps, though there's some clutter that needs cloning away, perhaps.

 

The aberrations on the port fin are a great example to would-be aircraft snappers why good (and unfortunately) expensive optics is a must!

 

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Alex, you are certainly right about the aberration on the fin. The camera I was using is rather plagued with it, pretty much at all zoom lengths and all apertures. Do you recall when the name Carl Zeiss on a lens meant something? For a long time, Zeiss resisted even marketing zoom lenses because it was so difficult to make them meet their quality standards. Times have certainly changed. Now they will put their name on a 12x zoom lens that produces aberration like this. Somewhere in Germany old Carl must be turning over in his grave.

 

It is actually fairly easy, though time consuming, to photoshop the chromatic aberration out of a pic. That is especially true with airplane pictures where it tends to be obvious just on the edges of certain surfaces against a blank sky near the edges of the frame. And, I often see chromatic aberration in airplane pics made with Canon L glass and similar; it's a fairly challenging regime for telephoto performance. So, considering that the cost of this camera probably isn't even the sales tax on the gear that you or I usually use, it is debatable whether better optics are worth it for casual airplane shooters. Luckily, in a pic this size you can't see some of the other issues--noise from the tiny sensor, jpg artifacts, etc.--that would make this camera a non-starter for the serious crowd.

 

Turning to aesthetics, I am not sure that in this picture I caught the warm and peaceful evening light that made the moment special for me. I intentionally resisted jacking up the color to make it too obvious.

 

 

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On the note of the aberration, on a high res monitor (2048X1536) you can hardly see it. I had to download the picture and zoom in. So you may take comfort in knowing that those with monitors with a resolution so high they can hardly read what most desktop icons say, will not readily see the aberration.
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