Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very well said, Adam. My 4x5s stay bolted to a tripod. Medium format...probably 90% on a tripod, except for the Mamiya 7. Leica? Never been on a tripod. on 11/5/01 6:41 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@mac.com wrote: > on 11/5/01 10:07 AM, Jim Brick at jim@brick.org thoughtfully wrote: > >> You, and most others, obviously do not understand how digital sensors work. >> To change a sensor would require a change of all of the electronics in the >> camera as well. > > Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back regarding what I know or > do not know. > > Digital sensor technology is hardly static and will continue to evolve. What > on earth makes you think that the current technology is the end-all? > > Please note that an optical low-pass filter can perform the bandwidth > limitation required to prevent aliasing. > > AT THIS TIME some sharpness will be lost by applying such a filter. In the > future this will not be the case. I'm sure you're up to doing the math. > > This is NOT hard. Many of us would be tickled pink to get images at the > current best-case digital sensor resolution. Sure, they would not be the > ultimate sharpness the lenses can deliver - but I'd bet that very very few > of us shoot all our images from a tripod or hand-held at 1/1000th of a > second where the lens actually can deliver the best image quality. > > Adam Bridge > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html