Isn't a lens still a lens whether it's on a digital camera or SLR? They all
focus light the same way. Light rays come straight through a "digital"
lens? Right!
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: George Conklin <gconklin@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: [OM] Olympus - no digital plans for OM series
| I just got back from the Seybold Convention and Expo in San Francisco. At
| the Oly booth I asked about a digital body for all my Oly OM glass. The
| answer was from a rep was, "Not that I know of."
| "
| He then went on to give a curious answer as to why not. "The OM lenses do
| not work for digital imaging." He said that lenses focused images by the
| rays crossing and the CD chip needed all the light beams to be coming in
on
| a straight axis because the pixel receptors were like a cup and the light
| had to reach the bottom. The present OM lenses land the images at an
| angle. I said, "Hunh???" That was about all he was able to say. I said
| my undergraduate course in optics must have been under different laws of
| physics. It seems to me that exact parallel beams would only exist in an
| infinitely small point at the center of the image.
|
| Maybe I shouldda gone back to another rep for a second opinion (on
physics,
| not a new OM).
|
| BTW, the wide digital printers (primarily ink jet which is evolving
| rapidly) continue to amaze me. I saw some lovely images coming out in 5
| foot widths on all manner of film, paper stock and fabrics. Every vendor
| is ramping up their image software, e.g. Corel Draw 10, Adobe Photo Shop
6.0.
|
| George in Berkeley
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