A diffraction-limited f/0.8, or so, might be able to pull it off on-axis. I
don't know if
anyone's ever done that. There might be some military or scientific
instruments, which are not suable for ordinary photography. Conventional
photographic lenses rarely get past 100 cycles/ mm at any usable modulation
transfer (5%, or so).
Paul Farrar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: ( OM ) Was megapixel madness
> >on 9/14/02 2:27 PM, Brian Swale at bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> Winsor Crosby wrote:, forwarded by Moose
> >>
> >>> It is well known that 35mm lenses are sharper than medium format and
> >>> large format lenses.
> >>
> >> Hi folks; not necessarily true. The Zeiss Sonnar 250mm SuperAchromat
CFi
> >> lens for Hasslefree is reputed to be the sharpest lens in current
> >>production;
> >> capable of delivering 600 (I think it is, should look it up) lines per
(
> >> mm/inch I
> >> need to look up again). This topic came up about 9 months ago when we
> >> talked over the maximum detail that film could record. Whether it is
lines
> >> per
> >> mm or inch, it is still away better than any lens most people have.
And it
> >> should be possible to fit it to an OM body.
> >
> >I remember that... probably should be 600lp/mm, because 600lp/inch is
only
> >about 40lp/mm, which isn't all that impressive. I remember seeing
somewhere
> >that the typical Pen F lens was capable of pretty impressive resolution,
> >something like 80lp/mm or more... the supposed need to provide more
> >resolution due to the smaller film format resulted in some pretty
> >high-quality designs.
> >--
> >
> >Jim Brokaw
> >OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
>
> Unfortunately none of this makes any sense. Since 80 lines per mm is
> generally considered to be superb lens resolution I really doubt that
> Zeiss has discovered some alternative physics that produces 8 times
> the resolution of the best of any other manufacturers product.
>
> There are 25.4mm per inch. 600 lines per inch would convert to 23
> lines per mm which is not really good by anyone's standard. However
> it would probably put a nice image on large format film.
>
> Maybe you guys need to double check things? :-)
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
>
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