Bullshit! This sounds like a lot of marketing double-talk. I for one
don't believe it. Why would Nikon release their D1 with a standard Nikon
AF mount? Why would Kodak make their $20-30,000 digital cameras using Fxx
and EOS bodies that use standard Nikon and Canon lenses?
OK, I plead ignorance, and I'm on a EE or Optical Engineer, I'm just a
lowly college-educated bum, but....
I honestly don't understand the statements that quality is acceptable for
film, but not for Digital. The digital CCD's are like groups of little
pieces of film (or buckets), what difference does it make whether or not
the light rays are parallel or convergent? Moden lens design has
concentrated on minimizing aberrations across a flat film plane. Forgive
me, but isn't a CCD flat??!! If modern lenses can focus onto ultra-fine
films like K25, 2415, etc and get outstanding results, why not CCD's at
several times the resolution (worse, not better)?
I for one am going to post this over on the Leica list and get some
reactions from them for some more fuel.
Skip
At 2/8/00 09:20 PM -0700, you wrote:
I spoke with several folks from Olympus America at PMA this past week. In
general they had this to say:---Some OM items are still in production and will
continue to be so for the foreseeable future; NO digital camera using OM
lenses is planned (more on this later); they are developing what they
feel are
the best P&S 35mm and consumer digital cameras.
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.
Also, interchangeable lenses have some play in the mount, and while some of
this in acceptable and within tolerance for film, it is not for CCD's.
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Skip Williams
Westfield, NJ
skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx
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