By
Ernie (Southern
Photographic Federation)
When
one can no longer blame the Processing Lab for those out of focus
shots that are returned from what was thought to be one with all 36
capable of scoring 10s. It is time to take drastic action. A visit to
the local camera shop does not help "Yes sir we can get you one
but we need to order it if you know the Dioptic value". A visit
to the optician had taken place only a few weeks previous (a company
perk) so I looked up on the prescription for the magical figure. Now
came the Camera Club Challenge, does the offset in the camera need to
be taken into account when obtaining the correction lens value or does
the value of the correction lens already take this into account?
Equally divided opinions. Seeing that I belong to Club Canon I phoned
them up. They still offer a Correction Lens Service where one can loan
the full set and find the one which does the job. The prayers of an
out of focus photographer answered.
Accompanying
the Booking Form was a Photostatted article on the loan sceme plus
general information but the last paragraph cast doubts on whether I
should bother or not, but seeing the cost was negligible I decided to
go ahead.
That
doubting paragraph said that standard correction lenses may not be the
answer as it has been surveyed but only 10% of photographers. I am
pleased to say that I was one of the 10% and now that I have it fitted
and can see what I take is what I get back from the lab. Those 36
shots all crisp and sharp are not scoring 10s it has to be blurred and
out of focus now. I am ready and waiting for the vogue to return, my
only hope is that my correction lens does not get
lost in that period.