Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner >But in hindsight always a nice thing it may have been smarter to try this >naked sensor thing out on one of Panasonic Leicas first. And see what hell >all breaks loose in practice amongst the consumers. Wrong market. A better market for a camera without an AA filter is one optimized for a careful RAW workflow, where image quality is a primary goal. The PanaLeica buyer's goal is more likely to be a good-quality picture right out of the camera, no mucking about on the computer. >... but resolution is completely dependent on magnification. That's one factor. The information density in the raw file is another. The AA filter weakens the information density so it takes a larger file with more pixels to equal the information in the file from the AA-less camera. >Do Tree's Moir?? >Somewhere in the rain forest of South America I bet there's one that does. >Birds do it bee's do it.... Mammals don't, some birds do (especially quail). Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com