Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digital Dreams
From: George Day <george@rdcinteractive.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:49:28 +0000

Very well said, Adam.

My 4x5s stay bolted to a tripod.  Medium format...probably 90% on a tripod,
except for the Mamiya 7.  Leica?  Never been on a tripod.

on 11/5/01 6:41 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@mac.com wrote:

> on 11/5/01 10:07 AM, Jim Brick at jim@brick.org thoughtfully wrote:
> 
>> You, and most others, obviously do not understand how digital sensors work.
>> To change a sensor would require a change of all of the electronics in the
>> camera as well.
> 
> Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back regarding what I know or
> do not know.
> 
> Digital sensor technology is hardly static and will continue to evolve. What
> on earth makes you think that the current technology is the end-all?
> 
> Please note that an optical low-pass filter can perform the bandwidth
> limitation required to prevent aliasing.
> 
> AT THIS TIME some sharpness will be lost by applying such a filter. In the
> future this will not be the case. I'm sure you're up to doing the math.
> 
> This is NOT hard. Many of us would be tickled pink to get images at the
> current best-case digital sensor resolution. Sure, they would not be the
> ultimate sharpness the lenses can deliver - but I'd bet that very very few
> of us shoot all our images from a tripod or hand-held at 1/1000th of a
> second where the lens actually can deliver the best image quality.
> 
> Adam Bridge
> 
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