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Subject: [OM] Lens resolution (was [OM]: Free OM-to-E-System adapter?!)
From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:14:41 -0500
At 3:43 AM +0100 1/20/04, Listar wrote:
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:48:03 -0500
>From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: Reply Re: Free OM-to-E-System adapter?!
>
>
>Brian,
>
>I don't disagree a bit with what you wrote.  But the point of my 
>mini-diatribe, which I dashed off hurriedly during halftime of a 
>football game, was simply to counter the assertion that 35mm 
>lenses, in general, have greater resolution than MF or LF lenses.  
>Therefore, my aim was to make an apples-to-apples comparison, 
>giving no consideration to the obvious advantage of the larger 
>format and comparing like-size images.
>
>In the real world, using, for example, a 6x9cm format camera, a 
>lens with half the resolution of a 35mm lens would, in the end, 
>produce a superior, more detailed print than the higher resolution 
>35mm lens simply because of the greater film size.  When the 
>lenses are at least equal, as you prove, MF wins hands-down.  LF 
>is a whole 'nother ball game.

Yes.  They all have about the same resolution on the film, as film is film, and 
there is no point for a lens to have greater resolution than the film it will 
be used with.

Joe Gwinn



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