Interesting article Piers, but I'm unsure why the author says MTF is
"Modular Transfer Function" rather than "Modulation Transfer Function".
Have I missed something ?
...Wayne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:48 PM
> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [OM] FYI - Kirk did a nice preview of the OMD
>
> You might like to read an article in last week's Amateur Photographer
which
> examined "whether the 20 and 30-million-pixel sensors of the latest Sony
> and Nikon cameras offer any real benefits-or have they surpassed the
> abilities of the lenses they rely on?" with this strap-line: "The idea
that a
> sensor outresolves a lens (or vice versa) is a simplification to the point
of
> error". The article itself provides a robust defence of the strap-line!
>
> A 600kB pdf version is available here, (but not for long):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7ca6uvz
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dawid Loubser [mailto:dawid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 March 2012 17:25
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] FYI - Kirk did a nice preview of the OMD
>
> On 09 Feb 2012, at 2:05 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> > But 16MP is more than enough. Right? Maybe, maybe not. For the vast
> > bulk of my photography today, it will be more than sufficient. But in
> > three years, it might not be. It's not that I'm a slave to the
> > megapixel race, (far from it), but as often as I do this, I will want
> > to jump as deep into the state-of-the-art as possible.
>
> I have to chime in here. Yes, 16MP is unequivocally enough!! It was back
> when the Canon 1DsMkII was first released years ago, it still is, and it
will
> always be - because there aren't even many lenses that can out-resolve a
> 16MP sensor across the frame in most shooting conditions
>
> --snip
>
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