Telephoto and washed out pictures.

You are shooting over open water which is likely to create a lot of haze, most likely why your image came out like it did. Its not a camera/lens fault, just nature.
 
Thanks. I suspected it was haze.

Would explain why pictures that I shoot that don't involve going over water turn out fine... should have made the connection before!
 
trencheel303 said:
Thanks. I suspected it was haze.

Would explain why pictures that I shoot that don't involve going over water turn out fine... should have made the connection before!
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Yup - the longer the reach, the more this stuff is noticeable. Not just 'haze' but actual distortion too. Compare moon shots done in Kielder vs ones in London!
 
Forgot to post a link to a tutorial explaining how to fix this sort of thing.

Should help with these type of shots.
 
Also by magnifing the image through the telephoto will also make the image look less saturated, whereas a wide angle will have the opposite effect.

I think it's to do with the effect of magnifcation compressing the wave lengths of the light. :thinking:

I sure there is someone on the forum who could explain it better.
Or say I am talking out of the back of my pin-hole :lol:
 
Well Galaxy wasn't one of the best brands - to put it mildly. ;)

Never underestimate the difference that all those coatings on modern lenses make to the contrast and saturation in your images - you don't fork out all that wonga for nothing. Haze certainly wont be helping in this shot, but that's a pretty badly washed out image, even allowing for haze. Does the lens have a filter fitted?
 
Also, does it have a lens hood?

Stray light = reduced contrast.
 
I had a feeling it was probably just a cheapo lens back in its day, the colour rendition and sharpness of my Pentax 30mm f/3.5 is much better, but for pennies I can hardly complain. it does not have a hood or a filter but there is a screw thread on the end of the lens.

I wouldn't mind a Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 II but that's a lot of money for me. Nice lens though. Maybe someday :)
 
TwentySixDays said:
Also by magnifing the image through the telephoto will also make the image look less saturated, whereas a wide angle will have the opposite effect.

I think it's to do with the effect of magnifcation compressing the wave lengths of the light. :thinking:

I sure there is someone on the forum who could explain it better.
Or say I am talking out of the back of my pin-hole :lol:
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Compressing the wavelengths would increase the frequency of the light wave, therefore changing the actual colour as we perceived it. For example, if you 'compressed' the wavelength of a blue light wave, it would start to appear more purple! :p
 
trencheel303 said:
The lens, btw, is one of these jobbies:

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It's labelled as just GALAXY, *not* PRINZGALAXY.
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I seem to remember they made a screw-in teleconverter for the old Kowa SE leaf-shutter fixed lens SLRs...
 
There's clearly a high pressure at play here, probably an inversion (you can see it in the first phot) and therefore all Glasgow's pollution is being trapped and creating that haze layer. Just my 2p....:)
 
davek said:
There's clearly a high pressure at play here, probably an inversion (you can see it in the first phot) and therefore all Glasgow's pollution is being trapped and creating that haze layer. Just my 2p....:)
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You've got it spot on. That is simply distant pollution haze in that picture. Even during days of most excellent visibility, there will always be that horizon haze. Bringing that far horizon up closer using a high zoom lens only serves to exacerbate that problem.
Nowt you can do about that, although I THINK certain lens filters might help to "cut" through some of the haze.
 
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