Best way to avoid CA

[On the Huh]

After selling my 5D2 and L glass last year, I'm stuck with a dinosaur 20D and a crappy slow Tamron 28-200 lens. Now I know gear isn't the be-all-and-end-all, but the biggest challenge I feel I may be faced with is purple/blue fringing. Any advice on how to limit this would be appreciated.

My photography was very people oreintated, but now I guess I'll be looking at landscapes and places of interest.

 

[woof woof]

20D? Dinosaur? Wash your mouth out!

CA... Stop your lens down a bit? Try and avoid high contrasts? Correct it post capture?

 

[On the Huh]

20D? *Dinosaur? Wash your mouth out!

CA... Stop your lens down a bit? Try and avoid high contrasts? Correct it post capture?

*Well I have had it for a long time now.

I took a pic at f8 and there was a lot of CA. I may have got away with f11, hand -held, (wil need to check exif), but i don't want to carry a tri-pod around during the day.

I can eliminate some post capture, but not all. I agree the pic I had trouble with was taken on a spring sunny day, and probably not late enough in the afternoon.

 

[woof woof]

You could try avoiding the extremes of the zoom. Even cheapo lenses have their sweet spot so maybe you could find it (assuming it has one) and try and stick to it. Maybe try and avoid using the edges of the frame or crop a little if it's worse there. You could also convert to B&W, CA will still manifest as softness, I suppose, but at least it wont be purple. I suppose a lens hood might help a little, but I suppose you use one.