Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Olympus and Sigma cameras don't use AA filters?? On Aug 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Richard Man wrote: > My BS/MS says "..in Computer Science," does that make me a > scientist? :-) > (actually, my BS is in EE....) > > Anyway, because lack of AA may introduce moire, have magenta cast > issue (you > don't think the M8 is the only one now? :-) ), and takes more > processing > power to compensate for the above two? > > Imagine you were building the original D30, the 3 megapixel wonder > from > Canon, back in... 2001? AA is the right choice then. > > The digital back have always required more "touching" from the > users, so > those issues are not as critical. > > In 2011? For the dSLR, having an AA is sort of compensated by > having huge > amount of megapixels, so Canikon may not care, but Olympus, Sigma > and others > have done away with it. > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, George Lottermoser > <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Don't have an answer for you Robert. >> Though I sure like the fact that Leica >> and most modern medium format backs >> don't use them. >> >> Do the scientists out there have an answer? >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information