RE: [Leica] digital quality

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

But Mikiro, good digital printing will most definitely show up many lens
characteristics, such as flare suppression, edge to edge sharpness,
contrast, light fall-off, etc. - micro detail may be a problem, but I would
argue - knowing virtually nothing about optics other than how to mount them
on my cameras :-) - that if you start with a really fine lens, your end
digital result will be better than if you don't.

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of MIKIRO
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:50 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] digital quality
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>
> At 10:52 PM +0200 25/7/00, B. D. Colen wrote:
> snip
> >I was trying to make the point, however,
> >that what is more important in this instance is the real world
> appearance of
> >a given print....
> snip
> >the fact that certain detail captured by the lens is visible
> when you look
> >at a print with a loupe and blow it way up, and that detail
> isn't visible in
> >the digital print, is really irrelevant unless you take your
> photographs for
> >forensic purposes, in which case microscopic detail becomes incredibly
> >important..:-)
>
> It is irrelevant AND relevant.  It totally depends on what you
> want in your
> prints.  I believe it is relevant at least when I "want" to see lens
> characters and when I "want" such characters appear in my photograph.  No
> arguments in me. :-)
>
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