Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] better sharpness in digital cameras
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:04:35 -0500
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Maybe he's been staying up late again...

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Jim - http://www.hemenway.com


Dan Post wrote:
> 
> Brian...
> have you... uh, perhaps started with the eggnog a little early already?
> :o)
> 
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:33 PM
> Subject: [Leica] better sharpness in digital cameras
> 
> > I've heard that if you disassemble a floppy disk and attach the brown
> ferromagnetic disc itself to the back of your digital camera, the pixels
> will be sharper in the resulting image because of a quantum clustering
> effect between the Fe3O4 molecules in the floppy disc and the Niobium used
> in the digital image memory. I tried it and the resulting picture sure
> looked much sharper to me.
> >
> > Since the glass in Leica lenses is doped with Niobium, maybe it will have
> some sort of synergistic effect with the digital image memory, too, thereby
> getting more than 2 megapixels' worth of sharpness out of a digital camera
> with a 2Mpx CCD?
> >
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