[Leica] Digital cameras with large aperture lenses

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 12:58 PM -0800 3/19/05, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Adam, I'm with you.... sounds like a better explanation would be more
>satisfying....
>
>There is an interaction between image circle and F-Stop in LF lenses ( the
>smaller the lens opening ( F-Stop) the bigger the image circle made by the
>lens)... But this applies to only certain lenses of specific design.
>Effectively, the lens outermost image circle gets bigger and also
>sharpens....  But again, with respect to lenses that cover the 1x1 1/2 area,
>then used on a smaller sensor, this sounds like not the answer that makes
>sense...
>
>
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net

You're right Frank, that has nothing to do with it. :-)

See my response to Adam and let me know if it helps. I guess I should 
actually draw some diagrams and post them, but I've been drawing all 
week and want to take a break.

:-)

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