[HUG ] Re: AW: Re: Biogons and digital backs

That's a flat out lie! There is not a sensor alive, used in any mere mortal purchasable camera, that has a sensor that can resolve more than a lens like a Biogon. Absolutely preposterous!
The reason they put low pass filters on sensors is to 'dumb down' the lens so that the sensor can actually see the fine (in this case, after dumbed down, not so fine) detail. Think about 5/7/9 micron square pixel sites PLUS the Bayer pattern and you have HUGE square blotches representing a pixel. Film is homogenous! Any 'good' camera lens (ANY) will out resolve any sensor we deal with today. But we have films that will out resolve some of our best lenses.
The perceived sharpness that you see from a digital image is just that. Perceived. It is a result of decades of image software engineers (think NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab, etc.) interpolating (say manipulating and adding all of the missing data) the available data and CREATING an eye popping image! Just look at what 'Genuine Fractals' will do with the puny amount of data from an APC size sensor. Think billboards!
Bottom line, lenses are better than sensors. Film is better than sensors. It's an engineer sitting in a cube somewhere that is CREATING the digital images that you get out of your camera and put onto paper. God bless them for what they do as they are dealing with a flawed system AND marketing idiots! 

Jim
PS... I have a Canon 1Ds Mark III (21MP) and it produces stellar images. And I thank the Canon image software engineers everyday for what they can pull out of this camera (a camera that stores electrons in 7 micron square sites, 196 microns square after factoring in the Bayer crap). 

Jim again


On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Ulrik Neupert wrote:


SWC does not deliver
the resolution to fully exploit the sensor resolution.



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