Digital BW, The Print

Claude,

Good information... Thanks..

Tony Bonanno

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wrote:
 
> Since then, camera  manufacturers have used various microlenses, 
low  pass 
> filters (single and multiple) in unique configurations to solve 
various  
> problems.
>  
> This, in concert with various imager sizes and well site pitches 
makes up  
> the recording side of a digital camera.
>  
> Thus, not all pixels are created equally with this myriad of 
optical paths  
> and recptors, even with the same lens.
>  
> In my experience (as owner of 23 different digital cameras in the 
last 9  
> years) the smaller the well site pitch on a sensor (CMOS or CCD), 
the more it  
> demands of the lens. The smaller the sensor size, using full frame 
35mm optics,  
> the less of the "corner nasties" one gets to see.
>  
> For those who would demand the highest performance possible from a 
beast  
> such as a 1Ds mark II (I have a 1D mark II and a 20d), I would 
recomment the  
> 50mm f/1.4, the 85mm f/1.2 L, and the 135mm f2.0, and the 200 mm 
f/1.8 L lenses  
> as the finest glass possible with that very demanding camera. 
Everything else 
> is  an optical compromise  for the sake of convenience or dollar 
savings.
>  
> Claude Jodoin
> working photographer
> Tech. Editor of Rangefinder Magazine
> 
> 
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