Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/26/03 8:17:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, telyt@earthlink.net writes: > Diffraction cannot be reduced. It's a function of wave mechanics and the > size of the aperture, nothing else. Other aberations can be reduced enough > so that the sum of the aberations and diffraction still makes an acceptably > sharp picture - depending on the size of the print, of course. > > Doug Herr - ------------------------------------ Doug, I reckon that's what they did. I assume the object of this tradeoff was a marketing promotion. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html