Hey guys,
So I bought some months ago an old 50mm/2.8 film lens. It was pretty cheap and it does a good job except for one thing: Haloing (or is it the right word) is pretty disturbing and makes the processing quite hard, especially when it comes to accentuate contrasts and clarity, or else create a more unreal, HDR-like kind of effect.
I don't know where this comes from, maybe something inside the lens is broken (it actually does make a ticking noise when I shake it in my hands, but well, I thought that'd just come from the manual aperture thing in the lens( a word I should learn
)).
Here are some concrete examples:
Here is a comparison of what the basic Jpg image gave me and the kind of black and white highly contrasted pic I wanted. The chin is quite disturbingly irregular, even on the actual 'regular' picture, and you can see this kind of white ugly halo on the contours on the BW version...quite annoying.
Another problem comes when I want to modify the colours and use the fill light and strenghthen the 'blacks' for a kind of HDR-like picture:
Here is a zoom of the upper part
And a detail on the down part:
So my questions would be: do you know where the problem comes from? Is it a problem often encountered with film lenses, which means will I have this problem if I buy other film lenses?
Also: would you know easy way to correct this, either on CS3 or Lightroom (or anything I can easily and hopefully freely download)?