On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Sommerwerck wrote:
|At the risk of offending those who went to the trouble of answering, I
|must point out that the answers given about why small-format lenses can
|(seemingly) supply higher resolution haven't answered anything. The
|resolution of a smaller image does not necessarily scale with the image
|size, and simply _saying_ that a smaller area allows for better
|correction is tautological.
|
|I'm still looking for an answer. If anyone finds it, I would be very
|grateful. I'm going to pull out my Focal Encyclopaedia and Neblette and
|do some searching.
I have always heard that the reason why small format lenses have
higher reolutions is simply because so much more R&D dollars are
thrown at them. Certainly if MF & LF lenses development received the
same financial backing, there should be no reason why they shouldn't
equal 35mm resolution & contrast.
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