Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>you read it right, the CMOS WITH microlenses cannot handle the very wide >cone of light produce by wide aperture optics. This is due to the microlens >itself. Did you read all the description of the differnet technologies >purposed to achieve a high fill factor? this is not what is used by Fill >Factory. Maybe I miss the point here, but I don't plan to use the microlens >array, because of that, but rather well the N-Well technology, wich frees >the front of the CMOS form any microlens array, recovering so a more wide >cone of light. And if this cone is not wide enough, then add the >microfresnel array. Greg I do not know the theory that for sure will be right but I'm using my digital camera with true wide angles (14 and 16mm) and most of the pictures are OK. Just have a look to http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=335239 with a bunch of pictures of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum. I do not pretend they are good pictures but merely a test of the use of a full format DSLR with extreme wide angles. I think most of the pictures do not have colour fringing in the borders even with 200% magnification on the monitor. I found this defect in some pictures I took with this camera and a Nikkor 28mm PC (perspective control) when decentering too much the lens. This pictures may be printed in A3 paper without any loss of sharpness. Probably much more. I tried to use my Leica Vario Elmar 21-35 with this digital camera but finally the lens couldn't work in this camera and this only confirmed that my 16-35 actually was truly good. So next step is using in the DSLR their own lenses, by the way excellent. Felix PS Who has two SLR one for film and other full format digital and the first is gathering dust. Not the case of my Ms. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html