Digital BW, The Print

Austin Franklin wrote:
> Anthony,
>
>> I don't know why a special "digital" lens has to be built, though.
>> It smells awfully fishy to me.
>
> Because the MTF of the lense is matched to the sensor.  Schneider
> wrote a very comprehensive paper on this.  Go to their web site and
> find it, and read it.  If you don't understand it, let me know and
> I'll do the best I can to help.

...and also to produce a lighter, smaller, cheaper wide angle lens (I'm
talking about the 12-24mm zoom) that is designed to cover the small
CCD rather than the whole 35mm frame.

Peter Marquis-Kyle