richard lewis wrote: >C'mon, Bob >this needs more explanation, are there any dedicated >large format digital lenses,
probably ones that are not actually large format lenses but sold as such >I thought they were a new >phenomenom. And what should we expect and why, do digi >sensors receive light in a different way..do we have >to see differently in digital. no, but you can market a lens as a higher quality so called 'digital' lens if it is to be used with a smaller than film light receptor a smaller image circle (and a market that is still 'amazed' if it can get its hand on 'wideangle' .... and does not whither when the lens is the same physical size as a regular piece of glass)....... It means fewer challenges to lens designers. .....easier to put the elements together to produce higher sharpness contrast etc etc rather than compromise these parameters in the face of old fashioned requirements My guess is that just now that digital capture is trying to get a quality hand up over trad methods it is worth the camera producers going for fidelity over flexibility and not bother with the investment into really complex/fancy lenses till the market knows what size sensor will be the standard philip =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
