Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi All, On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > It's again what I call oversampling stealing a term from audio. Two > systems are out of balance. There is much more information in one than > there is the other. It is silly for one system to filter the other. But > it works out surprisingly well anyway. Glass has much higher res then > the film? All the better to pick out the relevant information to put on > that film. A better image results. > > In other words the film does not get every thing the lens sees. But > what > it ends up getting is better than it would end up getting if it had an > inferior or mediocre lens projecting and up side down image on it. This nicely describes what I've seen of R lenses used on a Canon 10D - the results are noticeably better than Canon's (very good) glass. I think you're onto something here, Mark. Will von Dauster Denver - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html