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Subject: [Leica] S2 AA Filter?
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:24:18 -0500 (CDT)
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Olympus and Sigma cameras don't use AA filters??


On Aug 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> My BS/MS says "..in Computer Science," does that make me a  
> scientist? :-)
> (actually, my BS is in EE....)
>
> Anyway, because lack of AA may introduce moire, have magenta cast  
> issue (you
> don't think the M8 is the only one now? :-) ), and takes more  
> processing
> power to compensate for the above two?
>
> Imagine you were building the original D30, the 3 megapixel wonder  
> from
> Canon, back in... 2001? AA is the right choice then.
>
> The digital back have always required more "touching" from the  
> users, so
> those issues are not as critical.
>
> In 2011? For the dSLR, having an AA is sort of compensated by  
> having huge
> amount of megapixels, so Canikon may not care, but Olympus, Sigma  
> and others
> have done away with it.
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, George Lottermoser  
> <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Don't have an answer for you Robert.
>> Though I sure like the fact that Leica
>> and most modern medium format backs
>> don't use them.
>>
>> Do the scientists out there have an answer?
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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