[Leica] Re: Leica DMR vs. Canon 20D comparison shots

[schroter at optonline.net (schroter@optonline.net)]

That's saying ignore everything but what's at the center of the film.  

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From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net>
Date: Sunday, June 5, 2005 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica DMR vs. Canon 20D comparison shots

> Phil Askey makes some other points about the smaller sensor that 
> are 
> important:  that image quality with a smaller sensor is 
> considerably better 
> because of two things -- the lens is not as good near the edges 
> and those 
> edges are not used with an APS-size sensor, and the nature of the 
> chip is 
> that chromatic aberations increase at the edges of a larger sensor 
> with the 
> more oblique angle of light from wide angle lenses.   I think 
> these 
> considerations go into his great enthusiam for the D2X.   And he 
> may be 
> right -- less than a full 24x36mm sensor might well be optimum.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> >
> > As for APS size chips, I think we have just seen the high water 
> mark of 
> > that format with the
> > D2x. Noise at anything above 800 is simply going to be higher 
> than with a 
> > x1.3 or FF chip
> > and the only way to combat it is with a aggressive filter, which 
> kills 
> > detail. Personally I think
> > the future belongs to x1.3 and full frame chips.
> >
> >
> > feli
> >
> >
> >
> >
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