Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil Askey makes some other points about the smaller sensor that are important: that image quality with a smaller sensor is considerably better because of two things -- the lens is not as good near the edges and those edges are not used with an APS-size sensor, and the nature of the chip is that chromatic aberations increase at the edges of a larger sensor with the more oblique angle of light from wide angle lenses. I think these considerations go into his great enthusiam for the D2X. And he may be right -- less than a full 24x36mm sensor might well be optimum. Bob > > As for APS size chips, I think we have just seen the high water mark of > that format with the > D2x. Noise at anything above 800 is simply going to be higher than with a > x1.3 or FF chip > and the only way to combat it is with a aggressive filter, which kills > detail. Personally I think > the future belongs to x1.3 and full frame chips. > > > feli > > > > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com > > > no archive > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >