Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film
From: Will von Dauster <vondauster@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 07:28:31 -0600

Hi All,

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> It's again what I call oversampling stealing a term from audio. Two
> systems are out of balance. There is much more information in one than
> there is the other. It is silly for one system to filter the other. But
> it works out surprisingly well anyway. Glass has much higher res then
> the film? All the better to pick out the relevant information to put on
> that film. A better image results.
>
> In other words the film does not get every thing the lens sees. But 
> what
> it ends up getting is better than it would end up getting if it had an
> inferior or mediocre lens projecting and up side down image on it.

This nicely describes what I've seen of R lenses used on a Canon 10D - 
the results are noticeably better than Canon's (very good) glass. I 
think you're onto something here, Mark.

Will von Dauster
Denver

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