On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Mike Stoesz wrote:
>
> The stated reason about NO OM Digital Camera is: they feel the quality to be
> obtained from using interchangeable lenses NOT designed for digital is greatly
> inferior. It has to do with how a CCD accepts light input, light rays must
> ALL
> be parallel since the sensor is like little buckets ( U ). Nikon and Canon
> get
> around this by using an adapter plate to make the rays acceptable but
> sharpness
> suffers at the edges, especially with larger chips.
I'm no optical engineer but this doesn't make sense to me. How would
any sort of lens design bring rays from a single point into focus and
simultaneously make them parallel?
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