Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 19:29 Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V12 #64 > Bizarre way of doing arithmetic you have there, Anthony. > 'Specially for an engineer. 5 um pixels give at best 200 > lines per mm. My mistake. > On top of that you're looking at interpolation for > color, degrading the real resolution (in color) by > another 2-fold or so. Human vision is much worse at seeing color detail than brightness detail, so this is not a problem. > Whoops. We are down to 35-40 lp/mm. Maybe 50-60 per > mm if the system is completely optimal. Almost as low as what many lenses provide, in fact. > Of course *you* know how to build, inexpensive, > defect-free, low-noise, gigantic CCD arrays. Right? No. What makes you think I'd know that? -- Anthony