Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Carsten, You are right, my question concerned MTF curves for film, not lenses, but I still cannot see how a film can produce more detail than in the original scene. In any event, Dick Chandler has sent Fuji a message asking this question and will post the reply on LUG. Nathan Carsten Bockermann wrote: > Nathan, > > >>MTF is equal to how much of the line pairs is reproduced by the lens<< > > a lens cannot produce an imager that has higher contrast than the original > scene, so the MTF value has to < 100% for any spatial frequency. A film > can, and I believe the original question dealt with MTF curves for film. > > Carsten > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carsten_Bockermann/ - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html