Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On the other hand... If Jim Brick thinks Erwin's explanation is correct.... I did not gather that he said that one way or the other... I, too, respect the information Jim presents on topics like this, but as well as Jim, there are others that understand the issues equally as well, and their 'information' is equally as valuable. Jim perhaps has more experience than most, and as such, has drawn conclusions that others, if they were to delve into the topic with some depth, would come to in due time. > I think we are making some wrong assumptions based on Erwin's frustration > in his response... From experience I know a number of brilliant electrical > engineers who can't explain things in a coherant manner.... they can design, > build and fix anything electronic... I honestly don't know if Erwin is or isn't a 'real' engineer. I certainly do know he knows optics, but I do not believe he really knows, or understands, digital imaging...yet. It seems to be new to him, and he is trying to understand it. That is purely speculation on my part, mind you. There are a lot of assumptions that get made, and non-obvious information needed when someone first tries to understand digital imaging, when coming from an analog film world...and some of these assumptions may be wrong. As you say, in technical discussions, especially in an open forum like this, a lot of people can't follow the details. Explaining technical things to someone who has no background, that took some of us 20 or more years to develop, does require careful, coherent explanations...which are difficult to do. I would hope that in these discussing people would be able to explain their 'views' in such a manner that other (somewhat) equally technical people can understand it.