Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/11

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Subject: [Leica] Who needs 24 Megapixels when you can have 8?
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:00:28 -0500
References: <CAF8hL-HCJqwwTgxoRiWGVHC4tsmPG=hfJOpNSbSOsdmSODD-LA@mail.gmail.com>

Thx for the link Richard. 

Leo

On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:19 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
wrote:

> This photo caught my eyes:
> <http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/Kamber_War0002.jpg>
> 
> Being a photo geek - this is clearly a super wide angle shot, but look,
> there's no "oblong" wide angle lens distortion at the edge? I downloaded
> the image, and it's taken on a 2004 state of the art camera - the 1.3x crop
> Canon 1 D MkII with a whooping 8.2 megapixels. The lens is set to 16mm, so
> about 21mm in "full frame," still quite a wide angle shot.
> 
> Perhaps because it's cropped from a 16mm image that we do not see the
> distortion, which actually would be an argument in favor of using a cropped
> sensor.
> 
> The full article, which is quite interesting, is here:
> <
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/ten-years-later-photojournalists-on-war.html
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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