I just had a 20x30 made of a shot from my last Italian trip with the D3, and
it is truly remarkable! A shot that would have been impossibly noisy with
film.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] On free film...
> >
>> Well, be careful there. Don't forget to refer to the "diffraction
>> limited" lens resolution limits at the bottom of this page from
>> Luminous-Landscape.
>> <http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/resolution.shtml>
>>
>> It says that a 4/3 sensor can't resolve more than 8 MP at f/8 or 17 MP
>> at f/5.6. Of course, those are purely theoretical numbers for
>> theoretically perfect lenses which don't exist. In any case you'll have
>> to stay wider than f/8 if you hope to get the full 10 MP resolution of
>> the E3 sensor. Unfortunately, some OM Zuikos don't hit their stride
>> until f/8 or f/11. OK for a modest size full frame sensor like the 5D
>> but not OK for those even more pixel follow-ons. The E-1 is probably OK
>> down to about f/10.
>>
>
>
> I believe that empirical evidence shows that smaller sensor'd cameras
> exceed
> our expectations and large sensor (and film) cameras underperform our
> expectations.
>
> AG
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