Hi Frieder,
Large formats suck (sharpness-wise, not grain-wise) if you keep the
aperture miniscule. Wider is sharper.
Tom
At 2000 June 7 - Wednesday 1:24, frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
spoke about *Re: [OM] Photodo lens sharpness rat...* saying
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 06:14:14PM +1000, Frank Ernens wrote:
> > Tom Trottier wrote
> >
> > > Perhaps we Oly users shouldn't be so sanguine about the quality of
> > > our lenses... [data from photodo]
> >
> > There are some other anomalies in the tests there:
>
> >. Elsewhere in the site
> > you will find some comments on large v. small formats that
> > no-one much agrees with. Caveat surfor.
>
> No I very agree with the film format comparison at:
> http://www.photodo.com/art/articles.shtml#
>
> It is not surprising that in diffraction limited! photograpy there is not
> too much advatage of the large film format, because sharpness is
> limited by diffraction. - What a message! = ;-).
...
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